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EDITION 2026.08 /8,821 RECORDS / PUBLIC DOMAIN

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Public school / Primary

Page Hilltop Elementary School

Ayer, Massachusetts

NCES ID
250054202736
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

Page Hilltop Elementary School is a public primary school in Ayer, Massachusetts, run by Ayer Shirley School District. It enrols 532 students — the 33532nd 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

532students

33532nd nationally, tied with 139

Teachers

42.0FTE

22284th nationally, tied with 1,134

Students per teacher

12.7students

26003rd nationally, tied with 775

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 Ayer Shirley School District

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. 1Page Hilltop Elementary School532 students
  2. 2Ayer Shirley Regional High School394 students
  3. 3Ayer Shirley Regional Middle School367 students
  4. 4Lura A. White Elementary School343 students
Distance from the state median

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

  • Enrollment+17.3%
  • Teachers+20.0%
  • Students per teacher+6.7%
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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.