East Boston High School

East Boston High School is one of the substantial 9-12 campuss in East Boston, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Boston, with 1,252 students on its rolls from grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 777 students per school, that is 61% bigger than typical.

East Boston High School is one of 109 schools operated by Boston, a district that works with 46,437 students overall.

Demographically, East Boston High School lists that 83% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 9% White, 5% Black. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the resource side, On paper, East Boston High School has 108 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.

Around the school, Suffolk County reports that median household income runs about $95,631, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. East Boston High School is one of 157 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students).

O'Donnell Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around East Boston High School.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 1,344 students in 2018 compared to 1,252 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 79% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.4:1 in 2018 to 11.5:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.