Indian Head

Indian Head is a mid-sized elementary campus in Hanson, Massachusetts, part of Whitman-Hanson. The school instructs 494 students in grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 30% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Across the 7 schools in Whitman-Hanson (3,457 students total), Indian Head accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Indian Head logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder reads as 5% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, Indian Head lists 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Indian Head higher than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Plymouth County) records that median household income runs about $114,201, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Plymouth County runs 141 public schools (combined enrollment of about 76,427 students), of which Indian Head is one.

The closest other public school is Hanson Middle School, roughly 1.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Indian Head.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 52%: 324 students in 2018 compared to 494 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 92% to 86% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.