High · Massachusetts
Carter School
Carter School, a public high school in Dorchester, Massachusetts: grades 8–12, 28 students, 28.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Boston.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 28
- Teachers (FTE)
- 1.0
- Students per teacher
- 28.0
- Grades
- 8–12
- High
More students per teacher than 99% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 11.2 · 380 schools compared
More students per teacher than 97% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Smaller than 97% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 660 · 383 schools compared
Smaller than 93% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 8–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Large city
- Run by
- Boston
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Boston.
Location
- Address
- 270 Columbia Rd, Dorchester, MA 02121
- Phone
- (617)635-9832
- City or town
- Boston
- County
- Suffolk County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7–12 | 1,509 | 15.2 | |
Boston Arts AcademyAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 500 | 9.6 |
Madison Park Technical Vocational High SchoolCareer and technicalFree meals for all | 9–12 | 1,121 | 9.4 |
Snowden International High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 421 | 11.1 |
Boston Latin SchoolFree meals for all | 7–12 | 2,424 | 18.7 |
Boston Day and Evening Academy Charter SchoolCharterAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 323 | 10.9 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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