Bigelow Middle

Located at 42 Vernon St, in Newton, Massachusetts, Bigelow Middle is a close-knit intermediate school that instructs 434 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Newton. That puts it 21% leaner than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 547 students.

Bigelow Middle is one of 22 schools operated by Newton, a district that educates 11,632 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Bigelow Middle logs that the most-represented group is White (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 18% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 10% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.5:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate the typical household earns roughly $130,847 per year, about 60% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Bigelow Middle is one campus in the mix.

Underwood is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Bigelow Middle operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Bigelow Middle's enrollment has decreased 17% since 2018, when it stood at 521 (now 434). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 63% to 51%.

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