Breed Middle School

Set in Lynn, Massachusetts, Breed Middle School is a high-enrollment intermediate school, one of the schools within Lynn. It educates 1,265 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 547 students per school, that is 131% bigger than typical.

Breed Middle School is one of 27 schools operated by Lynn, a district that serves 16,364 students overall.

Demographically, Breed Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 73% of enrollment. Other groups include 9% White, 8% Asian, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 98 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.5:1, putting Breed Middle School higher than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,883 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Essex County runs 221 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students), of which Breed Middle School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Julia F Callahan, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 5%: 1,333 students in 2018 compared to 1,265 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 63% to 73%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 today.

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