NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Melrose, MA

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8 public K-12 schools in Melrose from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
3,815
Students
44/100
Avg Resource Index
15:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Melrose has more public-school enrollment than 41% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Melrose sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

5 of Melrose's 8 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 16-point gap between Early Childhood Center and Winthrop shows the range hidden by Melrose's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 59%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
65th percentile
Teacher staffing
54th percentile

Melrose High accounts for 25.3% of all Melrose public-school enrollment

That concentration means Melrose-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Melrose school enrollment varies 3.9× across entities

Melrose school enrollment ranges from 246 students (lowest) to 967 students (highest), a spread of 721 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Melrose operates one school district — a single-district system

Melrose's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Melrose student-teacher ratio is 15.0:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Melrose is typically wider than the Melrose-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Early Childhood Center 51
2. Melrose High 49
3. Horace Mann 47
4. Melrose Middle 45
5. Roosevelt 43
6. Lincoln 41
7. Herbert Clark Hoover 41
8. Winthrop 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Melrose

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Lincoln 59.9/100
  2. 2 Herbert Clark Hoover 48.1/100
  3. 3 Melrose High 45.2/100
  4. 4 Melrose Middle 44.9/100
  5. 5 Early Childhood Center 44.4/100

What do families ask about schools in Melrose?

Which Melrose school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Early Childhood Center has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Melrose schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Melrose, MA? ▼

Melrose has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,815 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 15:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.