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Burncoat Senior High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Burncoat Senior High
Located at 179 Burncoat Street, in Worcester, Massachusetts, Burncoat Senior High is a middle-of-the-pack senior high that works with 1,073 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Worcester. Enrollment runs roughly 38% bigger than the state mean of about 777.
Worcester runs 47 schools in total, collectively educating 24,778 students. Burncoat Senior High is one of those campuses.
On demographics, Burncoat Senior High lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school shows 28% White, 20% Black, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 14%.
On the resource side, Burncoat Senior High logs 81 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. The state averages around 23.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.
In the area at large, Worcester County reports that median household income runs about $95,939, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Worcester County's 257 public schools (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students), Burncoat Senior High is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: Burncoat Middle School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies an urban site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Burncoat Senior High's enrollment has climbed 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,034 (now 1,073).
On allk12, members of the Burncoat Senior High community share and discuss sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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