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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Grace Farrar Cole

Norwell, Massachusetts

NCES ID
250903001454
District
Norwell
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Grace Farrar Cole is a public primary school in Norwell, Massachusetts, run by Norwell. It enrols 522 students — the 34713th largest of 1,862 public schools in Massachusetts.

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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

522students

34713th nationally, tied with 103

Teachers

35.0FTE

32359th nationally, tied with 1,704

Students per teacher

14.9students

46570th nationally, tied with 935

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.

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Within Norwell

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. 1Norwell High602 students
  2. 2William G Vinal531 students
  3. 3Grace Farrar Cole522 students
  4. 4Norwell Middle School498 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Massachusetts median across 1,862 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+15.1%
  • Teachers0.0%
  • Students per teacher+25.2%
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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.