Bird Middle

Bird Middle is an intimate middle-grades school in East Walpole, Massachusetts, part of Walpole. The school enrolls 400 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 547 students per school, that is 27% smaller than typical.

Walpole runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 4,380 students. Bird Middle is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Bird Middle lists that 75% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 9% Hispanic, 8% Black, 4% multiracial, 4% Asian.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.5:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Norfolk County) shows that median household earnings sit near $130,739, roughly 59% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Norfolk County runs 198 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,300 students), of which Bird Middle is one.

Walpole Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Bird Middle operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 6-year window, the student count shrank 19%: 491 students in 2018 compared to 400 in 2024. White enrollment moved from 84% to 75% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

Inside the community feed, members of the Bird Middle community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.