Five candidates are elected to the Boston School Committee.

All incumbents, the candidates (with vote totals in parenthesis) are Louise Day Hicks (128,358), Thomas Eisenstadt (101,386), Joseph Lee Jr. (91,649), William O’Connor (73,552), and Arthur Gartland* (56,295). Hicks’ total is a record for a Boston municipal election up to that time. Unsuccessful candidates include Mel King (51,171) and John Carney (51,306).