Charlton Elementary

Charlton Elementary is one of the medium-sized K-5 schools in Charlton, Massachusetts, run under Dudley-Charlton Reg, with 333 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 1.

Dudley-Charlton Reg comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 3,476 students; Charlton Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Charlton Elementary records that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Charlton Elementary higher than the state norm the norm.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Worcester County put median household earnings sit near $95,939, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Charlton Elementary is one of 257 public schools in Worcester County (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students).

Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Charlton Elementary.

Charlton Elementary operates from a low-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Charlton Elementary has contracted 3%, going from 345 students in 2018 to 333 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 6% to 14% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 14.1:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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