Elizabeth Carter Brooks

Elizabeth Carter Brooks is a small primary school in New Bedford, Massachusetts, one of the schools within New Bedford. The school hosts 261 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Elizabeth Carter Brooks sits 31% smaller than that benchmark.

New Bedford comprises 24 schools with combined enrollment of 12,505 students; Elizabeth Carter Brooks is among them.

Looking at the student body, Elizabeth Carter Brooks lists that the largest single group is White at 41%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder looks like 32% Hispanic, 17% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Bristol County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Elizabeth Carter Brooks records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.6:1. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bristol County shows median household earnings sit near $85,625, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Bristol County's 142 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,897 students), Elizabeth Carter Brooks is one campus in the mix.

Keith Middle 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 Elizabeth Carter Brooks.

The school occupies a suburban site.

Over the past 7-year window. Elizabeth Carter Brooks's enrollment has fell 12% since 2018, when it stood at 298 (now 261). Over the same period, the White share fell from 51% to 41%. Class-load math has tightened: from 18.0:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 in 2025.

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