Shamrock

Shamrock, an intimate elementary-level community in Woburn, Massachusetts, operated by Woburn, teaches 284 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Shamrock sits 25% smaller than that benchmark.

Shamrock is one of 10 schools operated by Woburn, a district that instructs 4,520 students overall.

Demographically, Shamrock records that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic, 14% Black, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.4:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Shamrock is one campus in the mix.

Woburn High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a residential site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 22%: 362 students in 2018 compared to 284 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 65% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.