Capuano Early Childhood Center

Capuano Early Childhood Center operates as a tight-knit elementary school in Somerville, Massachusetts, part of Somerville. Current enrollment sits at 250 students spanning grades pre-K through K. That puts it 34% leaner than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 381 students.

Within Somerville, which oversees 11 schools and 4,952 students, Capuano Early Childhood Center is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Capuano Early Childhood Center shows that 36% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 31% White, 14% Asian, 10% multiracial, 8% Black. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Capuano Early Childhood Center tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household income runs about $130,847, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Capuano Early Childhood Center is one of 386 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students).

E Somerville Community is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 20%: 314 students in 2018 compared to 250 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share contracted from 43% to 36%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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