Edison Evening Academy

Brockton, Massachusetts, is home to Edison Evening Academy, a small high school. The student body numbers 225 students, from grades 11 through 12. Average enrollment for high schools in Massachusetts is about 777, so this school runs 71% smaller than that.

District-wide, Brockton has 24 schools and 15,280 students.

Roughly 78% of students at Edison Evening Academy are Black. The rest of enrollment is 16% Hispanic and 4% White. Among all residents of Plymouth County, the Black share is about 8%. The school's diversity index is 36%, meaning two students picked at random have a 36% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Edison Evening Academy operates with 4.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 51.5:1. On average, high schools in Massachusetts have 23.4:1, compared with 51.5:1 here.

Plymouth County has about 535,075 residents, and the median household income is $114,201, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Besides Edison Evening Academy, Plymouth County has 140 other public schools.

The nearest other public school, Brockton High, is less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

Edison Evening Academy falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment was 133 in 2020-21 and 225 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves. By 2024-25, the school had 51.5 students per teacher, compared with 19.0 in 2020-21.

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