Elementary · Massachusetts
Paul P Gates Elementary School
Paul P Gates Elementary School, a public elementary school in Acton, Massachusetts: grades k–6, 380 students, 12.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Acton-Boxborough.
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
- 380
- Teachers (FTE)
- 30.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.7
- Grades
- K–6
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 62% of elementary schools in Massachusetts
Median 12.1 · 1,022 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 71% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 51% of elementary schools in Massachusetts
Median 373 · 1,022 schools compared
Smaller than 57% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–6
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Acton-Boxborough
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Acton-Boxborough.
Location
- Address
- 75 Spruce Street, Acton, MA 01720
- Phone
- (978)266-2570
- County
- Middlesex 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| K–6 | 408 | 13.8 | |
| K–6 | 395 | 13.2 | |
| K–6 | 431 | 12.3 | |
| K–6 | 469 | 11.9 | |
| K–6 | 410 | 12.4 | |
| Pre-K–5 | 485 | 12.7 |
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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