Boston has one employee per five students

Both the state and city are near all-time lows in both student-staff and student-teacher ratios.
Students per employee

Line chart of student-staff ratios of Boston and statewide schools.

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Staff totals are measured in "full-time equivalents." Teachers include the following job categories in state database: "co-teacher," "teacher," "Teacher - support content instruction," "virtual course co-teacher," and "virtual course teacher."

Chart: CHRISTOPHER HUFFAKER/GLOBE STAFFSource: Department of Elementary and Secondary Education via E2C Hub