Shurtleff Early Childhood

Shurtleff Early Childhood operates as a large K-5 school in Chelsea, Massachusetts, run under Chelsea. Current enrollment sits at 779 students spanning grades pre-K through 1. Enrollment runs roughly 104% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Shurtleff Early Childhood is one of 11 schools operated by Chelsea, a district that enrolls 6,094 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Shurtleff Early Childhood shows that 88% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Beyond that, the school records 6% Black, 5% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 23%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 58 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Suffolk County indicate median household earnings sit near $95,631, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Shurtleff Early Childhood is one of 157 public schools in Suffolk County (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students).

Phoenix Academy Charter Public High School Chelsea is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Shurtleff Early Childhood has shrank 10%, going from 869 students in 2018 to 779 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 today.

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