High Plain Elementary

High Plain Elementary serves students in Andover, Massachusetts, as a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 505 students in kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 33% above the 381-student average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Andover is the local district for High Plain Elementary. It runs 10 schools with 5,414 students.

The largest group at High Plain Elementary is White students, at 47%. The remaining students are 25% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 5% Black. Census figures show Essex County is about 68% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, High Plain Elementary scores 69%.

High Plain Elementary lists 43.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 11.6 students per teacher. The average ratio among elementary schools in Massachusetts is similar, at 12.2:1.

For the population of Essex County, the median household earns about $101,883 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 43% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. High Plain Elementary shares Essex County with 220 other public schools.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Wood Hill Middle School, is less than a tenth of a mile. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8.

Locale data from NCES put High Plain Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 517 to 505, a small change.

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