Leicester Elementary

Located in Leicester, Massachusetts, Leicester Elementary is a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 4 and enrolls 467 students. That puts enrollment 23% larger than the 381-student average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Leicester Elementary is one school in a 4-school district, Leicester, which enrolls 1,294 students.

Of every 100 students at Leicester Elementary, about 62 are White. After that, the student body is 22% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among all residents of Worcester County, the White share is about 73%. The diversity index for Leicester Elementary is 56%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

With 33.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 13.9:1. Elementary schools in Massachusetts average 12.2:1, 1.7 fewer students per teacher than here.

Census data for Worcester County show median household income comes to about $95,939, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. There are 257 public schools in the county, enrolling about 121,490, Leicester Elementary among them.

Of the public schools around it, Leicester Elementary is closest to Leicester Middle, about 0.1 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

NCES describes the area around Leicester Elementary as Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment at Leicester Elementary was 476 in 2020-21 and 467 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.9:1.

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