Haggerty

Haggerty is a small elementary school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, administered by Cambridge. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 250 students. The school is 34% below the average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

In Cambridge, 17 schools enroll a combined 7,027 students.

The largest group at Haggerty is White students, at 35%. It is also 25% Asian, 19% Black, 11% multiracial, and 10% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Middlesex County is roughly 67% White. The diversity index for Haggerty is 76%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Staffing at Haggerty comes to 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 8.3:1. Elementary schools in Massachusetts average 12.2:1, 3.8 more students per teacher than here.

American Community Survey estimates for Middlesex County show that median household income comes to about $130,847, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 60% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Middlesex County counts 386 public schools with about 215,896 students.

Haggerty's closest public school neighbor is Mary Lee Burbank, about 0.9 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment fell 3% over 7 years, reaching 250 in 2024-25. The White share of enrollment fell from 45% to 35% over the same period. The ratio of students to teachers went from 10.3:1 to 8.3:1 over the same years.

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