Priest Street

Priest Street is a very small elementary school in Leominster, Massachusetts. The school runs kindergarten and enrolls 151 students. Elementary schools in Massachusetts have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 60% lower.

Leominster runs Priest Street along with 12 other schools, enrolling 6,193 students in total.

Of every 100 students at Priest Street, about 49 are Hispanic, the largest group. It is also 30% White, 10% Black, 7% multiracial, and 3% Asian. For comparison, the population of Worcester County is roughly 14% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 65, compared with 70 nationally.

Priest Street reported 10.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25, a ratio of 14.3:1. Elementary schools in Massachusetts have an average ratio of 12.2:1.

In Worcester County, the median household earns about $95,939 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Across Worcester County, 257 public schools serve about 121,490 students.

Priest Street's nearest public school is Northwest (about 0.6 miles). Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

In the federal locale system, Priest Street is coded Suburb: Mid-size, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Priest Street enrolled 84 in 2020-21 and 151 in 2024-25. Changes in grade configuration can produce shifts of this size. The number of students per teacher dropped from 16.8 to 14.3 over 4 years.

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