John Wallace Middle School

John Wallace Middle School serves students in Newington, Connecticut, as a medium-sized middle school. Classes run from 5 through 8, and the school has 610 students.

John Wallace Middle School is run by Newington School District, whose 7 schools enroll 3,828 students.

At John Wallace Middle School, White students make up 54% of the student body. After that, the student body is 25% Hispanic, 10% Asian, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Capitol Planning Region is about 64% White. The school's diversity index is 63%, meaning two students picked at random have a 63% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

The school reports 47.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to about 12.8 students per teacher. The school has more students per teacher than the 11.3:1 average for middle schools in Connecticut. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 36%.

John Wallace Middle School is graded B- by allk12, scoring above 50% of Connecticut public middle schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.

Census estimates describe Capitol Planning Region this way: the median household income is $93,394, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. In all, Capitol Planning Region has 286 public schools and roughly 137,047 students.

The shortest distance from John Wallace Middle School to another public school is about 0.2 miles, to John Paterson School. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.

Enrollment has fallen by 17 students since 2020-21, to 610.

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