James Fitzgerald Elementary School

James Fitzgerald Elementary School serves students in Waltham, Massachusetts, as a mid-sized elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 350 students.

Waltham runs James Fitzgerald Elementary School along with 10 other schools, enrolling 5,777 students in total.

At James Fitzgerald Elementary School, 51% of students are White. After that, the student body is 35% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Census figures show Middlesex County is about 67% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, James Fitzgerald Elementary School scores 62%.

There are about 10.0 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at James Fitzgerald Elementary School, which has 35.2. The school's 10.0:1 compares with an average of 12.2:1 for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Middlesex County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $130,847 a year, roughly 60% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. James Fitzgerald Elementary School shares Middlesex County with 385 other public schools.

Cunniff is the nearest public school to James Fitzgerald Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away. Within five miles of James Fitzgerald Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The school's locale code, City: Small, means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 6%, from 372 to 350. By 2024-25, the school had 10.0 students per teacher, compared with 13.8 in 2020-21.

James Fitzgerald Elementary School has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.