Michael F. Wallace Middle School

Set in Waterbury, Connecticut, Michael F. Wallace Middle School is a high-enrollment 6-8 campus, run under Waterbury School District. It serves 1,059 students across grades 4 through 8. By comparison, Connecticut's public schools average about 521 students each, so Michael F. Wallace Middle School sits 103% bigger than that benchmark.

Michael F. Wallace Middle School is one of 29 schools operated by Waterbury School District, a district that hosts 17,123 students overall.

On demographics, Michael F. Wallace Middle School logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 23% Black, 10% White, 4% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 86% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Naugatuck Valley Planning Region's rate of about 52%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Naugatuck Valley Planning Region) records that median household earnings sit near $86,191, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Naugatuck Valley Planning Region's 121 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,861 students), Michael F. Wallace Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Crosby High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Michael F. Wallace Middle School.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Michael F. Wallace Middle School's enrollment has decreased 3% since 2018, when it stood at 1,090 (now 1,059). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 53% to 61%.

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