Elizabeth Pole

Elizabeth Pole is a public elementary school run by Taunton in Taunton, Massachusetts. Students in pre-K through 4 attend, and enrollment is 635 students. The school's enrollment is 67% bigger than the 381 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Taunton serves 8,311 students across 13 schools.

No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Elizabeth Pole. The largest is White students, at 43%. The next largest groups are 32% Black, 16% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. In Bristol County overall, about 77% of residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 68% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

Teacher staffing is 47.1 full-time equivalents, or about 13.5 students per teacher. On average, elementary schools in Massachusetts have 12.2:1, compared with 13.5:1 here.

County data help place the school in context: in Bristol County, the median household income is $85,625, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. In all, Bristol County has 142 public schools and roughly 80,897 students.

The nearest other public school, John F Parker Middle, is about 0.2 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

The NCES locale for Elizabeth Pole is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment is up 15% from 2020-21, when Elizabeth Pole had 553 students, to 2024-25, when it had 635.

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