Memorial
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 57 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 62 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 48 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 75 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 63 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 67 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (67).
School pathway
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2016, while math scores are up about 5 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 48.0% | 55.0% |
| 2022-23 | 45.0% | 52.0% |
| 2021-22 | 48.0% | 45.0% |
| 2020-21 | 60.0% | 45.0% |
| 2018-19 | 56.0% | 60.0% |
| 2017-18 | 56.0% | 59.0% |
| 2016-17 | 44.0% | 47.0% |
Where Memorial ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Massachusetts | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #325 of 920 ▼ 15 | #118 of 207 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #249 of 920 ▲ 71 | #98 of 207 ▲ 16 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.0pp | #165 of 901 | #36 of 206 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 372 | #517 of 1,086 | #137 of 238 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #122 of 938 | #33 of 222 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.7% | #223 of 938 | #80 of 222 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.6% | #367 of 602 | #82 of 141 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 372 | 36.9 | 10.1:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 383 | 39.6 | 9.7:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 394 | 37.9 | 10.4:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 401 | 37 | 10.8:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 407 | 36.7 | 11.1:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 404 | 36 | 11.2:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 276 | 21 | 13.1:1 | 14% (40) |
| 2000-01 | 267 | N/A | N/A | 5% (14) |
| 1990-91 | 364 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (407 to 372); teachers up 1% (36.7 to 36.9).
About Memorial
In Burlington, Massachusetts, Memorial is a mid-sized elementary school. Enrollment totals 372 students across kindergarten through 5.
Memorial is a school in Burlington. The district has 6 schools and 3,510 students.
At Memorial, 56% of students are White. After that, the student body is 20% Asian, 12% Hispanic, 6% Black, and 6% multiracial. Census figures show Middlesex County is about 67% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Memorial scores 63%.
There are 36.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 10.1:1. The gap from the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is 2.1 students per teacher.
In Middlesex County, home to about 1,638,365 people, median household income comes to about $130,847, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 5% of people live in poverty. There are 386 public schools in the county, enrolling about 215,896, Memorial among them.
Memorial is about 0.2 miles from Marshall Simonds Middle, its nearest public school. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.
In the federal locale system, Memorial is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment fell 7% over 4 years, reaching 372 in 2024-25.
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