NCES CCD 2024-25 5 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Wilbraham, MA

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5 public K-12 schools in Wilbraham 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
2,596
Students
49.6/100
Avg Resource Index
14.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

One campus shapes the city average

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Wilbraham has more public-school enrollment than 22% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Minnechaug Regional High enrolls 38.1% of Wilbraham'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.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Wilbraham's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 1 combined-grade record. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

One district, but meaningful resource variation

Wilbraham'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 9-point gap between Soule Road and Mile Tree Elementary 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 78%
School count
Top 99%
Resource Index average
86th percentile
Teacher staffing
63rd percentile

Minnechaug Regional High accounts for 38.1% of all Wilbraham public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Wilbraham-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

Wilbraham school enrollment varies 3.1× across entities

Wilbraham school enrollment ranges from 317 students (lowest) to 990 students (highest), a spread of 673 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

Wilbraham operates one school district — a single-district system

Wilbraham'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

Wilbraham student-teacher ratio is 14.3:1 — 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 Wilbraham is typically wider than the Wilbraham-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Soule Road 54
2. Wilbraham Middle 53
3. Minnechaug Regional High 48
4. Stony Hill School 48
5. Mile Tree Elementary 45

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Wilbraham

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 Minnechaug Regional High 42.6/100
  2. 2 Wilbraham Middle 34.6/100
  3. 3 Soule Road 34.1/100
  4. 4 Mile Tree Elementary 31.1/100
  5. 5 Stony Hill School 30.4/100

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Which Wilbraham school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Soule Road has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Wilbraham 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 Wilbraham, MA? ▼

Wilbraham has 5 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,596 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.3:1.

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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.