Newburyport High

Newburyport High, a mid-tier senior high in Newburyport, Massachusetts, run under Newburyport, hosts 743 students, covering grades 9 through 12.

Newburyport runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,107 students. Newburyport High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Newburyport High logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%); the rest breaks down as 6% Hispanic. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 72 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,883 per year, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Newburyport High is one of 221 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students).

Nearest neighbor: Rupert A Nock Middle, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 4%: 774 students in 2018 compared to 743 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.2:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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