Craneville

Craneville is a medium-sized K-5 school in Dalton, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Central Berkshire. The school caters to 458 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 20% larger than the state mean of about 381.

Craneville is one of 5 schools operated by Central Berkshire, a district that educates 1,537 students overall.

Demographically, Craneville lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 9% Hispanic, 7% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Berkshire County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,013 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Berkshire County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,704 students), Craneville is one campus in the mix.

Wahconah Regional High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Craneville.

Craneville operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Craneville's enrollment has ticked up 11% since 2018, when it stood at 412 (now 458). Over the same period, the White share declined from 88% to 82%.

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