Peabody

Peabody is one of the cozy K-5 schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts, overseen by Cambridge, with 314 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5.

Peabody is one of 17 schools operated by Cambridge, a district that teaches 7,027 students overall.

On demographics, Peabody lists that the most-represented group is White (41%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 25% Black, 15% Asian, 11% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Peabody reports 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Peabody tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Middlesex County runs 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), of which Peabody is one.

Rindge Avenue Upper School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Peabody.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 3%: 323 students in 2018 compared to 314 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 41% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.

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