Hanscom School

Hanscom School serves students in Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, as a mid-sized elementary school. It offers pre-K through 8 and has 493 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Massachusetts have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 29% higher.

Lincoln has a total of 2 schools and 1,039 students, Hanscom School among them.

White students make up 49% of enrollment at Hanscom School, the largest share of any group. Next come 28% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 7% Black, and 3% Asian. That compares with about 67% White among all Middlesex County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 66%.

The student-to-teacher ratio is 8.2:1. The school has 60.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. The school's 8.2:1 compares with an average of 12.2:1 for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

In Middlesex County, home to about 1,638,365 people, the median household earns about $130,847 a year, roughly 60% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in Middlesex County number 386, with about 215,896 students.

Minuteman Regional High is about 0.8 miles away, making it the nearest public school. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

Hanscom School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.

Enrollment was 236 in 2020-21 and 493 in 2024-25. Large swings like this can come from changes to the grades a school serves.

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