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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

John A Bishop

Arlington, Massachusetts

NCES ID
250198000059
District
Arlington
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

John A Bishop is a public primary school in Arlington, Massachusetts, run by Arlington. It enrols 401 students — the 50743rd 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

401students

50743rd nationally, tied with 167

Teachers

33.0FTE

35882nd nationally, tied with 1,861

Students per teacher

12.2students

22041st nationally, tied with 700

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 Arlington

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. 1Arlington High1,527 students
  2. 2Ottoson Middle922 students
  3. 3Gibbs School511 students
  4. 4Thompson502 students
  5. 5M Norcross Stratton435 students
  6. 6Brackett425 students
  7. 7Cyrus E Dallin415 students
  8. 8John A Bishop401 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment−11.6%
  • Teachers−5.7%
  • Students per teacher+2.5%
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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.