Thorndyke Road

Thorndyke Road is a low-enrollment elementary school in Massachusetts, with an address in Worcester. The school serves kindergarten through 6. Enrollment is 319 students.

Worcester is responsible for 47 schools, Thorndyke Road included, with 24,778 students in all.

No group is above 50% at Thorndyke Road; the largest is Hispanic, at 44%. The school is also 34% White, 16% Black, 4% Asian, and 3% multiracial. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 14%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 67%.

Thorndyke Road has 21.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 14.9:1. The school's 14.9:1 compares with an average of 12.2:1 for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

For Worcester County, Census Bureau data show the median household earns about $95,939 a year, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Worcester County number 257, with about 121,490 students.

Among nearby public schools, Burncoat Senior High is closest at about 0.3 miles. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Enrollment figures show a drop of 27 students from 2020-21 to 2024-25. Its ratio of students to teachers was 17.3:1 in 2020-21, and 14.9:1 in 2024-25.

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