Oakham Center

Oakham Center is one of the rural-scale K-5 schools in Oakham, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Quabbin, with 152 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 60% below the state mean of about 381.

Quabbin runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 2,111 students. Oakham Center is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Oakham Center reports that 89% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Hispanic, 3% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the income-and-resources front, Oakham Center logs 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.6:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the surrounding community, Worcester County reports that median household earnings sit near $95,939, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Oakham Center is one of 257 public schools in Worcester County (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students).

Quabbin Regional High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 4.6 miles from this campus. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Oakham Center operates from a low-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Oakham Center's enrollment has climbed 18% since 2018, when it stood at 129 (now 152). Over the same period, the White share fell from 94% to 89%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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