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Cabot
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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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