Maria Hastings

As a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Lexington, Massachusetts, Maria Hastings works with 579 students from grades K through 5, part of Lexington. Enrollment runs roughly 52% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Maria Hastings is one of 10 schools operated by Lexington, a district that hosts 6,748 students overall.

Demographically, Maria Hastings lists that the most-represented group is Asian (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 29% White, 9% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 14% Asian, so the school skews visibly more Asian than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Middlesex County) logs that median household earnings sit near $130,847, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Maria Hastings is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Bridge, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Looking at the recent track record. Maria Hastings's enrollment has grew 24% since 2018, when it stood at 466 (now 579). Over the same period, the White share declined from 41% to 29%. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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