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Tucker
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 33 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 77 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (77).
School pathway
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 54 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 17 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 54.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 55.0% |
| 2022-23 | 60.0% | 53.0% |
| 2021-22 | 50.0% | 48.0% |
| 2020-21 | 58.0% | 43.0% |
| 2018-19 | 69.0% | 67.0% |
| 2017-18 | 63.0% | 65.0% |
| 2016-17 | 62.0% | 69.0% |
Where Tucker ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Massachusetts | In Norfolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #330 of 920 ▼ 13 | #65 of 104 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #264 of 920 ▼ 75 | #59 of 104 ▼ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.0pp | #289 of 901 | #37 of 103 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 454 | #336 of 1,086 | #33 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #588 of 938 | #61 of 110 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 72.8% | #27 of 938 | #7 of 110 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +2.9% | #252 of 317 | #45 of 55 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 454 | 35.3 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 449 | 34.2 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 459 | 34 | 13.5:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 30 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 441 | 29.7 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 423 | 25 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 367 | 28 | 13.1:1 | 31% (114) |
| 2000-01 | 430 | N/A | N/A | 12% (51) |
| 1990-91 | 467 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (441 to 454); teachers up 19% (29.7 to 35.3).
About Tucker
The public elementary school Tucker is located in Milton, Massachusetts. It has an enrollment of 454 students in pre-K through 5.
Milton includes 6 schools. Together they enroll 4,367 students.
The student body at Tucker has no majority group. White students lead at 39%. Other groups make up 30% Black, 12% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 7% Asian. Norfolk County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school's share is lower. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 73, compared with 70 nationally.
Tucker lists 35.3 full-time-equivalent teachers; that is about 12.8 students per teacher. The average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is about 12.2:1.
In Norfolk County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $130,739, about 59% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. There are 198 public schools in the county, enrolling about 101,300, Tucker among them.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Charles S Pierce Middle, is the closest to Tucker. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Tucker.
Federal data place Tucker in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 454, close to the 446 recorded in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 12.8:1.
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