Charlestown High School

Charlestown High School is a four-year high school of reasonably sized scale in Charlestown, Massachusetts, overseen by Boston, enrolling 754 students in grades 7 through 12.

Charlestown High School is one of 109 schools operated by Boston, a district that caters to 46,437 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Charlestown High School reports that Hispanic students make up the majority at 64%; the rest breaks down as 22% Black, 7% White, 5% Asian. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Charlestown High School logs 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household earnings sit near $95,631, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. In all, Suffolk County runs 157 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students), of which Charlestown High School is one.

The closest other public school is Warren-Prescott K-8 School, roughly 0.2 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Charlestown High School's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 920 (now 754). Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 48% to 64%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 today.

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