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Pine Grove
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding Expectations7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Pine Grove
Located at 191 Main Street, in Rowley, Massachusetts, Pine Grove is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 429 students (grades pre-K through 6), part of Triton.
Triton runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,074 students. Pine Grove is one of those campuses.
In terms of who attends, Pine Grove logs that 92% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 68% White, putting the school's mix noticeably more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, Pine Grove has 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.2:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Pine Grove tighter than the state norm the norm.
Around the school, 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 the poverty rate sits near 7%. Pine Grove is one of 221 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students).
Nearest neighbor: Paul F Doyon Memorial, around 2.2 miles off. 6 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 5%: 451 students in 2018 compared to 429 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 in 2025.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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Related schools
- Triton Regional High SchoolHigh · 538 students
- Newbury ElementaryElementary · 424 students
- Salisbury ElementaryElementary · 386 students
- Triton Regional Middle SchoolMiddle · 297 students
- Paul F Doyon Memorial2.2 mi · 366
- Ipswich Middle School2.3 mi · 377
- Ipswich High2.3 mi · 447
- Winthrop3.0 mi · 373
- Triton Regional Middle School3.0 mi · 297
- Triton Regional High School3.0 mi · 538