Tilton

Tilton operates as a reasonably sized elementary-level community in Haverhill, Massachusetts, run under Haverhill. Current enrollment sits at 471 students spanning grades K through 4. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 381 students.

Within Haverhill, which oversees 16 schools and 7,940 students, Tilton is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Tilton reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 26% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Tilton tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Essex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $101,883 per year, about 43% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Tilton is one of 221 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students).

Silver Hill Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a suburban setting.

Five-year trend. Tilton's enrollment has shrank 12% since 2018, when it stood at 537 (now 471). White enrollment moved from 38% to 26% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.6:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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