Mary E Flaherty School

Mary E Flaherty School operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Braintree, Massachusetts, part of Braintree. Current enrollment sits at 290 students spanning grades K through 4. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Mary E Flaherty School sits 24% leaner than that benchmark.

Mary E Flaherty School is one of 10 schools operated by Braintree, a district that educates 5,392 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Mary E Flaherty School lists that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 31% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Norfolk County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

In the surrounding community, Norfolk County reports that median household income runs about $130,739, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Norfolk County's 198 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,300 students), Mary E Flaherty School is one campus in the mix.

Hollis is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Mary E Flaherty School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 23%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 290 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 66% to 49% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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