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Pine Grove
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 63 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2016, while math scores are up about 20 points.
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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.
Essex County at a glance
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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