Parker

Located at 52 River Street, in Billerica, Massachusetts, Parker is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that educates 446 students (grades K through 4), run under Billerica.

Parker is one of 8 schools operated by Billerica, a district that serves 4,972 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Parker shows that the largest single group is White, at 57% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 15% Asian, 13% Black, 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Parker logs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.6:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Middlesex County) records that the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Parker is one of 386 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students).

Nearest neighbor: Billerica Memorial High School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Parker operates from a residential location.

Five-year trend. Parker's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 502 (now 446). White enrollment moved from 73% to 57% across the same window.

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