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George H Potter
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About George H Potter
George H Potter operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus in North Dartmouth, Massachusetts, part of Dartmouth. Current enrollment sits at 407 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.
Dartmouth runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,297 students. George H Potter is one of those campuses.
Demographically, George H Potter lists that 82% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, George H Potter shows 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting George H Potter higher than the state norm the norm.
Across the wider county, Bristol County reports that the typical household earns roughly $85,625 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. George H Potter is one of 142 public schools in Bristol County (combined enrollment of about 80,897 students).
The closest other public school is Dartmouth Middle, roughly 2.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies an outer-ring site.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 5%: 430 students in 2018 compared to 407 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 90% to 82% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.3:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.
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