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Lowell High
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Lowell High
Located at 50 Father Morrissette Boulevard, in Lowell, Massachusetts, Lowell High is a high-enrollment four-year high school that serves 3,446 students (grades 9 through 12), one of the schools within Lowell. That puts it 344% bigger than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 777 students.
Lowell High is one of 27 schools operated by Lowell, a district that serves 14,457 students overall.
On demographics, Lowell High shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 28% Asian, 18% White, 9% Black, 4% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Lowell High has 232 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.
Zooming out to the county, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Lowell High is one of 386 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students).
Lowell Middlesex Academy Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lowell High.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 9%: 3,154 students in 2018 compared to 3,446 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 25% to 41% over that span.
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