Thoreau

Thoreau is a reasonably sized elementary campus in Concord, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Concord. The school educates 401 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Concord runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,914 students. Thoreau is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Thoreau reports that White students make up the majority at 69%; the rest comes out to 11% multiracial, 10% Asian, 8% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Thoreau logs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Thoreau tighter than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, census data for Middlesex County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Middlesex County runs 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), of which Thoreau is one.

Nearest neighbor: Concord Middle, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Thoreau operates from a residential location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 457 students in 2018 compared to 401 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 77% to 69%. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.1:1 in 2025.

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