Elementary · Massachusetts
Mather Elementary School
Free meals for allMather Elementary School, a public elementary school in Dorchester, Massachusetts: grades pre-k–6, 473 students, 10.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Boston.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary 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
- 473
- Teachers (FTE)
- 43.6
- Students per teacher
- 10.8
- Grades
- Pre-K–6
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 71% of elementary schools in Massachusetts
Median 12.1 · 1,022 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 88% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 72% of elementary schools in Massachusetts
Median 373 · 1,022 schools compared
Larger than 61% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades Pre-K–6
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- 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
- 24 Parish Street, Dorchester, MA 02122
- Phone
- (617)635-8757
- City or town
- Boston
- County
- Suffolk County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Everett Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 288 | 11.3 |
Conservatory Lab Charter SchoolCharterFree meals for all | Pre-K–8 | 454 | 16.5 |
UP Academy HollandFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 641 | 14.4 |
| Pre-K–8 | 640 | 11.1 | |
King Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–6 | 464 | 9.9 |
Russell Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | Pre-K–5 | 356 | 11.9 |
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).
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