Lee Academy

Lee Academy is a small K-5 school in Dorchester, Massachusetts, run under Boston. The school hosts 195 students in grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 49% leaner than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 381 students.

Boston runs 109 schools in total, collectively educating 46,437 students. Lee Academy is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Lee Academy shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 43% Black, 6% multiracial, 5% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Lee Academy has 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Suffolk County put median household earnings sit near $95,631, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 157 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students), Lee Academy is one campus in the mix.

TechBoston Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lee Academy.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Over the past 7-year window. Lee Academy's enrollment has shrank 13% since 2018, when it stood at 223 (now 195). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 28% to 44%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.5:1 in 2018 to 11.3:1 today.

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