NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Wakefield, MA

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8 public K-12 schools in Wakefield 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
4,763
Students
45.8/100
Avg Resource Index
12.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wakefield has more public-school enrollment than 53% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wakefield 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

4 of Wakefield'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 0 middle and 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Wakefield lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 128 to 1,381 students, a 11-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 47%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
73rd percentile
Teacher staffing
80th percentile

Northeast Metro Regional Vocational accounts for 29.0% of all Wakefield public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Wakefield-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

Wakefield school enrollment varies 11× across entities

Wakefield school enrollment ranges from 128 students (lowest) to 1,381 students (highest), a spread of 1,253 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. 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

Wakefield student-teacher ratio is 12.9:1 — 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. Wakefield Memorial High 54
2. Woodville School 50
3. Greenwood 50
4. Galvin Middle School 49
5. Northeast Metro Regional Vocational 48
6. Early Childhood Center at the Doyle School 39
7. Dolbeare 38
8. Walton 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wakefield

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 Northeast Metro Regional Vocational 58.4/100
  2. 2 Woodville School 40.5/100
  3. 3 Early Childhood Center at the Doyle School 39.8/100
  4. 4 Galvin Middle School 39.5/100
  5. 5 Wakefield Memorial High 35.7/100

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Which Wakefield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wakefield Memorial High has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wakefield schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wakefield, MA? ▼

Wakefield has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,763 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.9:1.

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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.