Lyon High School

Set in Brighton, Massachusetts, Lyon High School is a minimally staffed high school, part of Boston. It caters to 95 students across grades 9 through 12. That puts it 88% smaller than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 777 students.

Within Boston, which oversees 109 schools and 46,437 students, Lyon High School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Lyon High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 52%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school reports 21% Black, 11% White, 8% Asian, 8% multiracial. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

On the income-and-resources front, Lyon High School reports 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 6.7:1. The state averages around 23.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, Suffolk County reports that median household earnings sit near $95,631, about 51% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Lyon High School is one of 157 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students).

Lyon K-8 School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Lyon High School.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Lyon High School's enrollment has contracted 23% since 2018, when it stood at 124 (now 95). White enrollment moved from 31% to 11% across the same window.

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