Peter Thacher Elementary School

Peter Thacher Elementary School is one of the public schools in Attleboro, Massachusetts. It is a mid-sized elementary school. It reports enrollment of 467 students in kindergarten through 4. That puts enrollment 23% above the 381-student average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Federal data list 12 schools in Attleboro, with 6,239 students enrolled.

The student body at Peter Thacher Elementary School is 54% White. The rest of enrollment is 22% Hispanic, 12% Black, 5% Asian, and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of Bristol County, the White share is about 77%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 63%.

Classroom staffing at Peter Thacher Elementary School totals 35.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.3:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Massachusetts average 12.2:1.

In Bristol County, median household income comes to about $85,625, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 31% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 8%. The county's public schools total 142, with about 80,897 students.

The closest school to Peter Thacher Elementary School is Early Learning Center, located less than a tenth of a mile away. Peter Thacher Elementary School is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 456 to 467, a small change.

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