Chittick Elementary School

As a low-enrollment elementary school in Mattapan, Massachusetts, Chittick Elementary School hosts 248 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by Boston. That puts it 35% below the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 381 students.

Boston comprises 109 schools with combined enrollment of 46,437 students; Chittick Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Chittick Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 34% Hispanic, 5% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 18% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.4:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Across the wider county, census data for Suffolk County shows median household income runs about $95,631, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Suffolk County runs 157 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students), of which Chittick Elementary School is one.

Boston Preparatory Charter Public School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Chittick Elementary School operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 306 students in 2018 compared to 248 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 27% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

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