NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Somerville, MA

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

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11
Schools
4,952
Students
49.3/100
Avg Resource Index
11.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Somerville has more public-school enrollment than 55% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Somerville lands in the upper national tier on both the average Resource Investment Index and teacher staffing intensity. Those measures come from different inputs: the index combines reported counselors, gifted access, attendance, and staffing, while the staffing percentile compares the city's student-teacher ratio directly. Agreement across both measures is stronger evidence of broad reported capacity than either score alone, though neither is a test-score rating or a guarantee about an individual classroom.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

7 of Somerville's 11 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Somerville's schools share one district authority while their average Resource Investment Index ranks at the 85th 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 35-point gap between Next Wave Junior High and E Somerville Community 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 45%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
85th percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

Somerville High accounts for 28.2% of all Somerville public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Somerville-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

Somerville school enrollment varies 87× across entities

Somerville school enrollment ranges from 16 students (lowest) to 1,394 students (highest), a spread of 1,378 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. 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

Somerville operates one school district — a single-district system

Somerville'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

Somerville student-teacher ratio is 11.2:1 — 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. Next Wave Junior High 72
2. Capuano Early Childhood Center 59
3. West Somerville Neighborhood 51
4. Full Circle High School 51
5. Benjamin G Brown 50
6. John F Kennedy 49
7. Winter Hill Community 45
8. Somerville High 44
9. Albert F. Argenziano School at Lincoln Park 42
10. Arthur D Healey 42
11. E Somerville Community 37

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Somerville

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 Capuano Early Childhood Center 73.7/100
  2. 2 Next Wave Junior High 68.8/100
  3. 3 Albert F. Argenziano School at Lincoln Park 66.7/100
  4. 4 Arthur D Healey 66.0/100
  5. 5 Somerville High 65.8/100

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Which Somerville school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Next Wave Junior High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Somerville schools in this federal-data comparison at 72/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Somerville, MA? ▼

Somerville has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,952 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.2:1.

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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.