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Dorothy L Beckwith
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 16 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 9 points.
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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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