Benjamin Banneker Charter Public
1 elementary school in our rankings
Ranks #18 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 6%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–6 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School is a charter school district in Massachusetts, operating under state charter rather than a traditional municipal school committee. The school is located in Boston's Roxbury neighborhood, approximately 2 miles southwest of downtown Boston. It serves students from kindergarten through high school in an urban setting, and its name honors Benjamin Banneker, the 18th-century Maryland mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor who helped lay out the District of Columbia. As a charter school, it is open to students through a public lottery process rather than by residential assignment.
How it compares
- Strongest area: ELA MCAS, in the top 1% of districts. 81% of students in grades 3–6 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 40% statewide in the same grades.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 22.6% in 2022 to 11.9% in 2025.
- Trend: Math MCAS is up 9.4 points since 2023 (77.7544% to 87.1397%).
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Schools in Benjamin Banneker Charter Public
We rank high schools that report SAT results and elementary schools with grade 3 MCAS results, so some of the district's schools (middle schools, for example) aren't listed. Elementary ELA and Math are 2024–2026 averages of grade 3 results.
MCAS results
Share of students meeting or exceeding expectations, compared with the state. Statewide 10th-grade results dropped after 2024, when passing the MCAS stopped being a graduation requirement. There was no test in 2020.
Students & classrooms
51.5% female · 48.3% male · 0.3% nonbinary
Spending & teachers
Spending is total per-pupil expenditure from all sources. Dollar figures aren't adjusted for inflation. "MA median" is the middle district in each year; small districts can spend far more per student, so the median is a fairer yardstick than the average. Salary is the average across 21 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
8.9 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2% missed 20% or more of school days