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F A Day Middle
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About F A Day Middle
F A Day Middle is one of the sprawling intermediate schools in Newtonville, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Newton, with 860 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. That puts it 57% larger than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 547 students.
Newton runs 22 schools in total, collectively educating 11,632 students. F A Day Middle is one of those campuses.
For racial and ethnic makeup, F A Day Middle records that 57% of the student body identifies as White; the rest comes out to 16% Asian, 12% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 67% White, putting the school's mix considerably less White than the area baseline.
On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 80 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.8:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 11.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.
Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household income runs about $130,847, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. F A Day Middle is one of 386 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students).
Newton Early Childhood Program is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around F A Day Middle.
Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 12%: 978 students in 2018 compared to 860 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 63% to 57%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.
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