Keough Memorial Academy

As an one-room-style 9-12 campus in Bellingham, Massachusetts, Keough Memorial Academy educates 29 students from grades 7 through 12, part of Bellingham. Enrollment runs roughly 96% below the state mean of about 777.

Keough Memorial Academy is one of 6 schools operated by Bellingham, a district that hosts 2,129 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Keough Memorial Academy shows that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 14% Hispanic. By comparison, Norfolk County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 7 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 4.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 23.4:1, putting Keough Memorial Academy tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Norfolk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,739 per year, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. In all, Norfolk County runs 198 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,300 students), of which Keough Memorial Academy is one.

Nearest neighbor: Joseph F DiPietro Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 15%: 34 students in 2018 compared to 29 in 2025.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.