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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Boston School

Boston, Kentucky

NCES ID
210441001089
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Boston School is a public primary school in Boston, Kentucky, run by Nelson County. It enrols 361 students — the 56836th largest of 1,550 public schools in Kentucky.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

361students

56836th nationally, tied with 149

Teachers

25.0FTE

53124th nationally, tied with 2,399

Students per teacher

14.4students

41726th nationally, tied with 949

Free or reduced-price lunch

44.3%percent

56304th nationally, tied with 88

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

Free or reduced-price lunch

Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.

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Within Nelson County

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Nelson County High School784 students
  2. 2Foster Heights Elementary School674 students
  3. 3Thomas Nelson High School669 students
  4. 4Coxs Creek Elementary School446 students
  5. 5Old Kentucky Home Middle School368 students
  6. 6Boston School361 students
  7. 7Bloomfield Middle School352 students
  8. 8The New Haven School345 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Kentucky median across 1,550 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment−22.5%
  • Teachers−13.8%
  • Students per teacher−5.3%
  • Free or reduced-price lunch−30.2%
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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.