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Conservatory Lab Charter School, Dorchester, MA

Charter schoolCEP schoolConservatory Lab Charter School is a public elementary school in Dorchester, part of Conservatory Lab Charter. It enrolled 454 students in 2024-25, with 16.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
454
Teachers (FTE)
27.0
Students per teacher
16.8
Grades
PK to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 16.8. The Massachusetts average across schools is 12.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school16.8
District16.8
Massachusetts12.0
United States15.3

School details

Address
395 Columbia Rd, Dorchester, MA 02125
Phone
(617)254-8904
District
Conservatory Lab Charter
County
Suffolk County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
250006001439
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Direct certification
322Students 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

Elementary schools elsewhere in Dorchester

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.