Brooke Charter School

As a high-enrollment all-grades campus in Mattapan, Massachusetts, Brooke Charter School caters to 2,216 students from grades K through 12, one of the schools within Brooke Charter School. That puts it 155% above the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 870 students.

Brooke Charter School is a school of Brooke Charter School, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Brooke Charter School records that 49% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 43% Hispanic, 4% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Brooke Charter School shows 178 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.1:1 average.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) records that median household income runs about $95,631, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Suffolk County's 157 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students), Brooke Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Lee K-8 School, around 0.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Brooke Charter School.

Brooke Charter School operates from a downtown location. Brooke Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 28%: 1,736 students in 2018 compared to 2,216 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 54% to 49% across the same window.

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