North Boston News

The majority of students in Essex County schools were white in the 2022-23 school year, according to the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

Of the 105,324 pupils attending Essex County schools, 51.4% were white. Hispanic students were the second largest ethnic group, making up 37.8% of the Essex County student body.

In the previous school year, white students were also the most common group in Essex County schools, representing 52.6% of the student body.

Capt. William G. Shoemaker School had the most even distribution of races among county schools, which included 35.7% of white students, 34.7% of Hispanic students, 13.5% of African American students, and 7.1% of multiracial students.

In the 2022-23 school year, the total number of students enrolled in public schools in the county dropped by 0.2% compared to the previous year.

Students in Massachusetts are predominantly white, according to state data from 2020. 35% of students were considered people of color.

Across the state, Hispanic and Latino students suffered the highest high school dropout rates.

Underrepresentation is also found among educators in Massachusetts. The Rennie Center reported that only 9% of teachers are people of color.

School name	Most Prevalent Ethnicity	Percent of Total Student Body	Total Enrollment
A. Drewicz Elementary School	Hispanic	77.5%	488
Aborn School	Hispanic	45.2%	217
Alexander B. Bruce School	Hispanic	93.4%	409
Amesbury Elementary School	White	86%	328
Amesbury High School	White	81.5%	453
Amesbury Innovation High School	White	80%	45
Amesbury Middle School	White	81.2%	584
Andover High School	White	64.7%	1,702
Andover West Middle School	White	70.5%	518
Anne Bradstreet Early Childhood Center	White	67.9%	430
Annie L. Sargent School	White	78.8%	467
Arlington Elementary School	Hispanic	97.1%	579
Arlington Middle School	Hispanic	97.7%	575
Atkinson School	White	53.3%	274
Ayers/Ryal Side School	White	82.4%	386
Bancroft Elementary School	White	76.2%	543
Bartlett School and Assessment Center	Hispanic	48.6%	35
Bates School	White	47.1%	374
Beeman Memorial School	White	70.7%	300
Belmonte STEAM Academy	White	54.6%	780
Bentley Academy Innovation School	Hispanic	70.1%	274
Bessie Buker Elementary School	White	80.8%	265
Beverly High School	White	73.6%	1,286
Beverly Middle School	White	72%	1,367
Bradford Elementary School	Hispanic	53%	508
Breed Middle School	Hispanic	72.5%	1,221
Brickett Elementary School	Hispanic	65.9%	305
Caleb Dustin Hunking School	White	61.9%	1,070
Capt. William G. Shoemaker School	White	35.7%	297
Captain Samuel Brown School	White	66%	376
Carlton School	White	56.5%	246
Center	White	55.6%	446
Centerville Elementary School	White	71.6%	317
Charles C. Cashman Elementary School	White	77.8%	369
Clarke School	White	74.1%	205
Classical High School	Hispanic	70.1%	1,818
Cobbet Elementary School	Hispanic	84.6%	602
Collins Middle School	Hispanic	45.8%	612
Comprehensive Grammar School	Hispanic	46%	955
Consentino Middle School	Hispanic	54.3%	700
Cove Elementary School	White	71.6%	419
Cutler School	White	90.6%	254
Danvers High School	White	80.2%	777
Doherty Middle School	White	76.8%	461
Donald P. Timony Grammar School	Hispanic	54.2%	1,263
Dr. Frederick N. Sweetsir School	White	84.6%	227
Dr. John C. Page School	White	91.2%	317
Dr. Paul Nettle School	Hispanic	54%	570
E. J. Harrington School	Hispanic	75.3%	590
East Gloucester Elementary School	White	79.6%	181
Edward A. Sisson School	Hispanic	51.7%	412
Edward F. Parthum School	Hispanic	93.8%	677
Edward G. Molin Elementary School	White	88.9%	279
Elmer S. Bagnall School	White	86.6%	486
Emily G. Wetherbee School	Hispanic	94.5%	495
Essex Elementary School	White	93.5%	231
Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School	White	77.4%	1,694
Fecteau-Leary Junior/Senior High School	Hispanic	60.3%	78
Francis M. Leahy School	Hispanic	97.4%	380
Francis T. Bresnahan Elementary School	White	88.2%	575
Franklin School	White	75.6%	381
Fredrick Douglass Collegiate Academy	Hispanic	78.1%	73
Frost Middle School	Hispanic	89.5%	514
Fuller Meadow School	White	83.8%	296
Gateway Academy	Hispanic	49.4%	81
Georgetown High School	White	91%	299
Georgetown Middle School	White	90.9%	186
Gerard A. Guilmette School	Hispanic	94%	481
Gloucester High School	White	78.5%	804
Gloucester PreSchool School	White	78.1%	105
Glover School	White	86.2%	326
Golden Hill School	White	47.6%	475
Gr. Lawrence Regional Vocational Technical School	Hispanic	81.3%	1,692
Great Oak School	White	77.1%	301
Greenleaf Academy	Hispanic	56.3%	32
Guilmette Middle School	Hispanic	94.6%	459
Hadley School	White	72.6%	350
Hamilton-Wenham Regional High School	White	87.6%	450
Hannah Elementary School	White	76.4%	330
Harry Lee Cole School	White	88.8%	348
Haverhill High School	White	50.2%	1,944
Helen R. Donaghue School	White	89.2%	250
Henry C. Sanborn Elementary School	White	60.7%	331
High Plain Elementary School	White	49.5%	527
High School Learning Center	Hispanic	98.4%	310
Highlands School	White	76.2%	386
Holten Richmond Middle School	White	80.6%	772
Hood School	Hispanic	71.7%	452
Horace Mann Laboratory School	Hispanic	44.8%	297
Howe-Manning School	White	84.5%	425
Huckleberry Hill School	White	72.2%	457
Ingalls School	Hispanic	80%	670
Ipswich High School	White	85.1%	502
Ipswich Middle School	White	86.5%	362
Ivan G. Smith School	White	85.8%	339
J Henry Higgins Middle School	White	70.4%	1,346
James F. Hennessey School	Hispanic	91.8%	317
John Breen School	Hispanic	89.1%	258
John E. Burke School	White	83.7%	252
John E. McCarthy School	White	67.8%	338
John G. Whittier School	White	45.7%	484
John K. Tarbox School	Hispanic	97.1%	275
Johnson School	White	82.6%	155
Julia F. Callahan School	Hispanic	64.7%	365
Kittredge School	White	80.1%	226
Lawlor Early Childhood Center	Hispanic	95.1%	164
Lawrence Family Public Academy	Hispanic	92.6%	189
Lawrence High School	Hispanic	94.5%	3,084
Leonard Middle School	Hispanic	98.2%	327
Lincoln-Thomson School	Hispanic	57.7%	189
Lucretia and Joseph Brown School	White	82.9%	444
Lynn English High School	Hispanic	73.7%	2,176
Lynn Vocational Technical Institute School	Hispanic	74.1%	1,523
Lynn Woods School	Hispanic	42.6%	148
Lynnfield High School	White	79.5%	565
Lynnfield Middle School	White	79%	713
Lynnfield Preschool	White	79.5%	39
Manchester Essex Regional High School	White	96.9%	416
Manchester Essex Regional Middle School	White	96.5%	283
Manchester Memorial Elementary School	White	92.8%	291
Marblehead High School	White	84.1%	879
Marblehead Veterans Middle School	White	82.3%	418
Marsh Grammar School	White	48.5%	1,052
Masconomet Regional High School	White	90.1%	990
Masconomet Regional Middle School	White	88.7%	559
McKeown School	White	75.2%	125
Methuen High School	Hispanic	48.2%	1,916
Miles River Middle School	White	87.3%	371
Moody Preschool Extension	Hispanic	51%	102
Moody School	White	45%	180
New Liberty Innovation School	Hispanic	42.9%	56
Newbury Elementary School	White	92.5%	412
Newburyport High School	White	90.1%	820
North Andover High School	White	71.6%	1,336
North Andover Middle School	White	70%	1,035
North Beverly Elementary School	White	78.8%	345
Oliver Elementary School	Hispanic	96.1%	433
Oliver Middle School	Hispanic	94.6%	351
Parthum Middle School	Hispanic	94.4%	568
Paul F. Doyon Memorial School	White	86.1%	366
Peabody Personalized Remote Education Program (Peabody P.R.E.P.)	White	62.8%	94
Peabody Veterans Memorial High School	White	68.7%	1,476
Penn Brook School	White	91.5%	703
Pentucket Lake Elementary School	Hispanic	46.6%	521
Pentucket Regional Middle School	White	88.3%	358
Pentucket Regional Senior High School	White	88.7%	591
Perley Elementary School	White	98.8%	82
Pickering Middle School	Hispanic	55.3%	552
Pine Grove School	White	92.6%	432
Plum Cove School	White	85.7%	203
Proctor Elementary School	White	90.3%	259
Ralph B. O'Maley Middle School	White	79.6%	622
RISE Academy	Hispanic	94.6%	56
Riverside School	White	81.9%	331
Robert Frost School	Hispanic	87.1%	572
Robert L. Ford School	Hispanic	80.7%	404
Rockport Elementary School	White	88.8%	304
Rockport High School	White	88.3%	231
Rockport Middle School	White	92.3%	195
Rollins Early Childhood Center	Hispanic	93.6%	202
Rupert A. Nock Middle School	White	89.4%	481
Salem Early Childhood School	White	52.1%	96
Salem High School	Hispanic	48.9%	888
Salem Prep High School	White	64.3%	14
Salisbury Elementary School	White	81.2%	420
Saltonstall School	Hispanic	44.6%	397
Saugus High School	White	54.6%	713
Saugus Middle School	White	53.2%	598
School for Exceptional Studies	Hispanic	92.2%	102
Sewell-Anderson School	Hispanic	59.9%	269
Shawsheen School	White	44.9%	98
Silver Hill Elementary School	Hispanic	49.9%	471
South Elementary School	White	69.1%	453
South Lawrence East Elementary School	Hispanic	91.3%	653
South Memorial School	White	71.4%	472
Spark Academy	Hispanic	94.5%	437
Spofford Pond School	White	89.1%	384
Stanley School	White	84.5%	161
Steward Elementary School	White	91.1%	369
Summer Street School	White	87.9%	421
Swampscott High School	White	75.7%	641
Swampscott Middle School	White	75.7%	679
Tenney Grammar School	Hispanic	62.3%	1,254
Thomas Carroll School	White	58.4%	586
Thomson School	White	70.1%	301
Thurgood Marshall Middle School	Hispanic	74.1%	1,215
Tilton School	Hispanic	59.7%	295
Tilton Upper Middle School	Hispanic	59.1%	171
Tracy School	Hispanic	86.5%	362
Triton Regional High School	White	87.8%	647
Triton Regional Middle School	White	88.8%	320
Veterans Early Learning Center	White	52.3%	371
Veterans Memorial School	White	60.2%	216
Village School	White	85.6%	555
Virginia Barton Early Childhood Center	Hispanic	56.3%	32
Walnut Square School	White	54.4%	136
Washington Elementary School	Hispanic	75.5%	416
West Elementary School	White	64.9%	555
West Memorial School	White	87.3%	259
West Parish School	White	86.4%	374
Whittier Regional Vocational School	White	64%	1,277
William A. Welch Senior School	Hispanic	52.6%	230
William R. Fallon School	Hispanic	44.4%	27
Willis E. Thorpe School	White	86.3%	329
Winthrop School	White	86.3%	313
Winthrop School	White	80.2%	373
Witchcraft Heights School	White	46.6%	455
Wm. P. Connery School	Hispanic	80.5%	532
Wood Hill Middle School	White	49.4%	338