About Salem School District
Salem School District is a public school system serving Essex County, Massachusetts, based in Salem. It serves 3,831 students across 11 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a suburb: large district. By enrollment it is the #63 largest of Massachusetts’s 395 school systems.
Size and structure
Salem School District enrolls 3,831 students in 11 schools — an average of about 348 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #63 of 395 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Salem School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (3,831 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
Salem School District employs about 329 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 11.6:1 — below the Massachusetts average of about 11.9:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 752.
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 Salem 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 Salem 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 Salem School District’s schools in the NEASC directory.
Salem School District vs. Massachusetts
See every Massachusetts district side by side in the Massachusetts directory.
Look up Salem 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):