NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Newton, MA

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

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5
Schools
1,845
Students
49.6/100
Avg Resource Index
10.7:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Newton has more public-school enrollment than 10% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Oak Hill Middle enrolls 35.2% of Newton's public-school students. That is enough concentration for one institution to pull the citywide enrollment, staffing, and Resource Index averages toward its own profile. The smaller campuses below should therefore be compared directly rather than inferred from the headline mean; their grade configurations and program footprints can be materially different even inside the same district.

The listed grade span is structurally narrow

Newton's 5 listed schools do not form a conventional mix of elementary, middle, and high-school campuses. The missing or thin grade bands make all-school city averages less representative of a typical K–12 pathway; district boundaries and nearby-city options may matter more for the grades not well represented here.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Newton's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 86th percentile among listed cities. Shared governance removes one source of policy variation, but it does not erase campus differences by grade span or enrollment. The 10-point gap between Oak Hill Middle and Newton Early Childhood Program measures the remaining local spread. Use the district-level picture for common budget context, then compare the school components to see whether staffing, counseling, gifted-program reporting, or attendance accounts for each campus's position.

City enrollment
Top 90%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
96th percentile

Oak Hill Middle accounts for 35.2% of all Newton public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Newton-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: Middle. 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

Newton school enrollment varies 3.8× across entities

Newton school enrollment ranges from 173 students (lowest) to 649 students (highest), a spread of 476 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

Newton operates one school district — a single-district system

Newton'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

Newton student-teacher ratio is 10.7:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Oak Hill Middle 53
2. Lincoln-Eliot 51
3. Underwood 51
4. Bigelow Middle 50
5. Newton Early Childhood Program 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Newton

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-Eliot 74.2/100
  2. 2 Newton Early Childhood Program 73.9/100
  3. 3 Underwood 71.1/100
  4. 4 Oak Hill Middle 68.2/100
  5. 5 Bigelow Middle 67.1/100

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Which Newton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Oak Hill Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Newton schools in this federal-data comparison at 53/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Newton, MA? ▼

Newton has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 1,845 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.7:1.

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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.