Bowman

The public elementary school Bowman is located in Lexington, Massachusetts. The latest federal count shows 429 students in kindergarten through 5.

Lexington runs Bowman along with 9 other schools, enrolling 6,748 students in total.

Federal enrollment data show Asian students as the largest group at Bowman, at 43%. Enrollment also includes 35% White, 10% multiracial, 7% Black, and 5% Hispanic. Among people living in Middlesex County, the Asian share is about 14%. The school's diversity index is 68%, meaning two students picked at random have a 68% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Dividing enrollment by its 38.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 11.2:1. That is 1.0 students per teacher below the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Census estimates describe Middlesex County this way: the median household income is $130,847, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Bowman, Middlesex County has 385 other public schools.

Jonas Clarke Middle is located about 0.7 miles from Bowman. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

In the federal locale system, Bowman is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment has fallen by 41 students since 2020-21, to 429.

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