Major Howard W. Beal School

Major Howard W. Beal School operates as a big elementary campus in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, run under Shrewsbury. Current enrollment sits at 623 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Major Howard W. Beal School sits 64% bigger than that benchmark.

Shrewsbury runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 5,956 students. Major Howard W. Beal School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Major Howard W. Beal School reports that the most-represented group is White (38%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 37% Asian, 14% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 73% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Worcester County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $95,939 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Worcester County's 257 public schools (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students), Major Howard W. Beal School is one campus in the mix.

Oak Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Major Howard W. Beal School.

Major Howard W. Beal School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Over the past 7-year window. Major Howard W. Beal School's enrollment has climbed 102% since 2018, when it stood at 309 (now 623). Over the same period, the Asian share fell from 43% to 37%.

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