James Tansey

James Tansey operates as a close-knit elementary-level community in Fall River, Massachusetts, run under Fall River. Current enrollment sits at 280 students spanning grades K through 5. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so James Tansey sits 27% leaner than that benchmark.

Within Fall River, which oversees 19 schools and 11,089 students, James Tansey is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, James Tansey logs that White students make up the majority at 60%. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 10% Black, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, On paper, James Tansey has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting James Tansey higher than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bristol County shows median household income runs about $85,625, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. James Tansey is one of 142 public schools in Bristol County (combined enrollment of about 80,897 students).

The closest other public school is B M C Durfee High, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around James Tansey.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at James Tansey has shrank 11%, going from 315 students in 2018 to 280 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 81% to 60% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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