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Boston Latin Academy

205 Townsend Street, Dorchester, MA, 02121-1223 -

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Definition of Terms

Boston Latin Academy

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 7 - 12

County

Suffolk County, MA

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1686 students

% Male / % Female

41% / 59%

Total Classroom Teachers

76 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 7 - 353 students

Grade 8 - 266 students

Grade 9 - 309 students

Grade 10 - 271 students

Grade 11 - 241 students

Grade 12 - 246 students

This School

( MA ) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:22

1:14

Students by Ethnicity

This School

( MA ) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	21%	5%
% Hispanic	15%	14%
% Black	26%	8%
% White	36%	71%
% Unknown	2 %	4%

Additional Student Information

This School

( MA ) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

40%

24%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

( MA ) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Boston School District

This School's Agency

( MA ) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	139	3
Number of Students Managed	60,607 students	1,973 students
District Total Revenue	$1,090,975,000	$24,738,000
District Expenditure	$1,039,801,000	$23,460,000
District Revenue / Student	$18,001	$19,938
District Expenditure / Student	$17,156	$10,244
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

Boston Latin Academy is a public exam school in Boston, Massachusetts founded in 1877 as Girls' Latin School. The school is currently located at 205 Townsend Street in Dorchester, Massachusetts and has a student body from 7th grade to 12th grade.
The school is a part of the Boston Public Schools.
History: Boston Latin Academy was founded in 1877 as Girls’ Latin School. The founding of the school was the result of citizen and parent participation and the intention to establish college preparatory training for girls. A plan to admit girls to Public Latin School was formed by the Massachusetts Society for the University Education of Women and Henry Durant, president of Wellesley College.
A committee was formed to discuss the issue. A petition with a thousand signatures was presented to the School Board in September 1877. The board referred the question to the subcommittee on high schools.
Meanwhile a group of parents met with the headmaster of Public Latin School and asked that their daughters be admitted. Although the headmaster was willing to teach the girls, he thought it best to wait for the subcommittee’s decision. Ultimately the subcommittee recommended that a separate Latin School for girls be established.
Girls’ Latin School opened on West Newton Street in Boston ’s South End in 1878. The school had only 37 pupils in its 3 classes. The first class graduated in 1880 with 6 members. The number of students grew each year. When the number of students exceeded 350 in 1898, the school committee moved the first four classes to a building in Copley Square while the fifth and sixth remained in the old building. In 1907, Girls’ Latin School moved into a new building, shared with Boston New School located on Huntington Avenue in the Fenway.
The school remained there until 1955, when Teachers’ College expanded, forcing Girls’ Latin School to relocate to the former Dorchester High School for Girls building located in Codman Square.
In 1972, the School Committee recognized a state law that ended sex discrimination in the two Latin Schools. Soon after, boys were accepted into the school and the name was changed to Boston Latin Academy.
In 1981, Latin Academy moved back into the Fenway area, this time to Ipswich Street, across from Fenway Park. It remained there until the summer of 1991, when it moved back again, this time to its present location in the former Boston Technical High School, located on Townsend in Dorchester. In 2006 Boston Latin Academy had 247 graduates, the largest class in their history.
Athletics: Currently Latin Academy offers a wide variety of sports. Football, Baseball, Girls and Boys Basketball,Girls and Boys Hockey, Girls and Boys Soccer, Girls and Boys Volleyball, A Coed Swimming team, A Coed Track Team, Golf, Softball, Tennis and Cheerleading.
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About This Zip Code (02121)

School Zip (02121)

(MA) State Average

Population (Approximate)

25,057 people

6,259,314 people

% (age 25+) w/College Degree

19%

40%

Population Average Age

29 years old

36.5 years old

Average Household size

2.8 persons

2.5 persons

Median Household Income

$27,211

$49,984

Avg. # of Rooms in Household

4.8 rooms

5.4 rooms

Median Age of Housing Structure

69 years old

55 years old

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% Owning / % Renting

23% / 77%

58% / 42%

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