Bessie Buker Elementary

Located at 1 School Street, in Wenham, Massachusetts, Bessie Buker Elementary is a small elementary school that instructs 255 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Hamilton-Wenham. Enrollment runs roughly 33% below the state mean of about 381.

Within Hamilton-Wenham, which oversees 5 schools and 1,669 students, Bessie Buker Elementary is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Bessie Buker Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (87%). The remainder looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Bessie Buker Elementary higher than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate median household earnings sit near $101,883, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Essex County runs 221 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students), of which Bessie Buker Elementary is one.

Winthrop School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Bessie Buker Elementary.

Bessie Buker Elementary operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Bessie Buker Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 257 (now 255). Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.