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George H Potter
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 51 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2016, while math scores are up about 15 points.
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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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