Community Charter School of Cambridge

Located at 245 Bent Street, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Community Charter School of Cambridge is a very small high school that serves 251 students (grades 6 through 12), run under Community Charter School of Cambridge. That puts it 68% below the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 777 students.

Community Charter School of Cambridge sits inside Community Charter School of Cambridge, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Community Charter School of Cambridge records that 63% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest comes out to 20% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 6% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 5% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.

In the surrounding community, Middlesex County reports that median household earnings sit near $130,847, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Community Charter School of Cambridge is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Vassal Lane Upper School, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Community Charter School of Cambridge.

Community Charter School of Cambridge operates from a high-density location. As a public charter, Community Charter School of Cambridge runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 31%: 365 students in 2018 compared to 251 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 10.3:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.