NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Wellesley, MA

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

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10
Schools
4,146
Students
51.6/100
Avg Resource Index
12.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Broad resource and staffing advantage

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wellesley has more public-school enrollment than 46% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Wellesley 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.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

7 of Wellesley's 10 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.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Wellesley lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 87 to 1,262 students, a 15-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 54%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
90th percentile
Teacher staffing
84th percentile

Wellesley Sr High accounts for 30.4% of all Wellesley public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Wellesley-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

Wellesley school enrollment varies 15× across entities

Wellesley school enrollment ranges from 87 students (lowest) to 1,262 students (highest), a spread of 1,175 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

Wellesley operates one school district — a single-district system

Wellesley'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

Wellesley student-teacher ratio is 12.5:1 — 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. Wellesley Middle 60
2. Wellesley Sr High 56
3. Ernest F Upham 56
4. Schofield 55
5. Sprague Elementary School 54
6. Joseph E Fiske 51
7. John D Hardy 48
8. Katharine Lee Bates 47
9. Hunnewell 46
10. Preschool at Wellesley Schools 43

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wellesley

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 Preschool at Wellesley Schools 66.0/100
  2. 2 Sprague Elementary School 63.0/100
  3. 3 Joseph E Fiske 61.3/100
  4. 4 John D Hardy 60.3/100
  5. 5 Wellesley Middle 57.9/100

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Which Wellesley school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Wellesley Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wellesley schools in this federal-data comparison at 60/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Wellesley, MA? ▼

Wellesley has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,146 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.5:1.

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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.