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Dorothy L Beckwith
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Dorothy L Beckwith
Dorothy L Beckwith operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Dighton-Rehoboth. Current enrollment sits at 479 students spanning grades 5 through 8.
Within Dighton-Rehoboth, which oversees 5 schools and 2,541 students, Dorothy L Beckwith is one campus in the system.
In terms of who attends, Dorothy L Beckwith logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%). The remainder comes out to 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Dorothy L Beckwith reports 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.5:1 average.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Bristol County indicate median household earnings sit near $85,625, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Bristol County's 142 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,897 students), Dorothy L Beckwith is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is Palmer River, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies a low-density site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Dorothy L Beckwith's enrollment has decreased 18% since 2018, when it stood at 583 (now 479). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 92% to 86%.
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