McKay K-8 School

McKay K-8 School is one of the sizable elementary schools in East Boston, Massachusetts, overseen by Boston, with 640 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8. That puts it 68% larger than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 381 students.

Within Boston, which oversees 109 schools and 46,437 students, McKay K-8 School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, McKay K-8 School logs that 87% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder looks like 8% White, 3% Black. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate the typical household earns roughly $95,631 per year, roughly 51% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 157 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students), McKay K-8 School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: East Boston Early Education Center, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

McKay K-8 School operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 18%: 778 students in 2018 compared to 640 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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