Elementary · Regular · Grades PK to 6

Clap Elementary School, Dorchester, MA

CEP schoolClap Elementary School is a public elementary school in Dorchester, part of Boston School District. It enrolled 140 students in 2024-25, with 9.3 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 140
Teachers (FTE): 15.0
Students per teacher: 9.3
Grades: PK to 6

This school's ratio is 1.3 lower than the district figure of 10.6. The Massachusetts average across schools is 12.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school9.3

District10.6

Massachusetts12.0

United States15.3

School details

Address: 35 Harvest Street, Dorchester, MA 02125
Phone: (617)635-8672
District: Boston School District
County: Suffolk County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: No
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 250279000319

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Direct certification: 115Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Boston School District

Curley K-8 School 902 students
Murphy K-8 School 855 students
Eliot K-8 Innovation School 784 students
Quincy Elementary School 731 students
Orchard Gardens K-8 School 689 students
UP Academy Holland 641 students
McKay K-8 School 640 students
Mario Umana Academy 634 students
Mildred Avenue K-8 School 601 students
Blackstone Elementary School 582 students
Mattahunt Elementary School 581 students
Sumner Elementary School 576 students

Elementary schools elsewhere in Dorchester

Conservatory Lab Charter School Conservatory Lab Charter

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.