King Elementary School

King Elementary School is one of the moderately sized elementary-level communitys in Dorchester, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Boston, with 464 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 22% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

King Elementary School is one of 109 schools operated by Boston, a district that works with 46,437 students overall.

Demographically, King Elementary School lists that the largest single group is Black at 50%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 42% Hispanic, 5% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.9:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household earnings sit near $95,631, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Suffolk County runs 157 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students), of which King Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Frederick Pilot Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

King Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Trend over the last 7 years. King Elementary School's enrollment has fell 5% since 2018, when it stood at 487 (now 464). Over the same period, the Black share declined from 61% to 50%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.7:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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