About Cambridge School District
Cambridge School District is a public school system serving Middlesex County, Massachusetts, based in Cambridge. It serves 7,027 students across 17 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #17 largest of Massachusetts’s 395 school systems.
Size and structure
Cambridge School District enrolls 7,027 students in 17 schools — an average of about 413 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #17 of 395 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Cambridge School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (7,027 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Cambridge School District employs about 748 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 9.4:1 — below the Massachusetts average of about 11.9:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 1,517.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Massachusetts funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Cambridge School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Massachusetts does not assign A–F letter grades; its DESE accountability system reports an accountability percentile (1–99) and a criterion-referenced classification of whether a district is meeting its targets, across achievement, growth, high-school completion, English-learner progress and chronic absenteeism. Look up Cambridge School District on the Massachusetts school and district report cards.
Accreditation status
The main voluntary K-12 accreditor for Massachusetts is NEASC (the New England Association of Schools and Colleges), an elective, membership-based process. Search Cambridge School District’s schools in the NEASC directory.
Cambridge School District vs. Massachusetts
See every Massachusetts district side by side in the Massachusetts directory.
Look up Cambridge School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):