Cabot
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 9 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 6 points.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Cabot
Cabot is an elementary school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Newtonville, Massachusetts, overseen by Newton, hosting 414 students in grades K through 5.
Newton comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 11,632 students; Cabot is among them.
Demographically, Cabot lists that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 18% Asian, 15% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 4% Black. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Cabot reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.
Around the school, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Cabot is one of 386 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students).
Nearest neighbor: Newton North High, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Cabot operates from a metropolitan location.
Over the past 7-year window. Cabot's enrollment has grew 6% since 2018, when it stood at 391 (now 414). White enrollment moved from 70% to 48% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.
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