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Guilmette Middle School
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Guilmette Middle School
Guilmette Middle School operates as a tight-knit intermediate school in Lawrence, Massachusetts, overseen by Lawrence. Current enrollment sits at 457 students spanning grades 5 through 8.
Lawrence runs 26 schools in total, collectively educating 13,313 students. Guilmette Middle School is one of those campuses.
Looking at the student body, Guilmette Middle School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (95%). Beyond that, the school records 2% White, 2% Black. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Guilmette Middle School shows 51 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.5:1, putting Guilmette Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm.
In the area at large, ACS estimates for Essex County put the typical household earns roughly $101,883 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, Essex County runs 221 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students), of which Guilmette Middle School is one.
Gerard A. Guilmette is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Guilmette Middle School operates from a suburban location.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Guilmette Middle School has decreased 6%, going from 486 students in 2018 to 457 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.
On this page, members of the Guilmette Middle School community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.
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