Jonas Clarke Middle

Jonas Clarke Middle is a medium-sized middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts, one of the schools in Lexington. It educates 796 students in grades 6 through 8. The school's enrollment is 46% above the 547 average for middle schools in Massachusetts.

Jonas Clarke Middle sits within Lexington, which has 10 schools and 6,748 students.

Jonas Clarke Middle's enrollment has no majority group, and Asian students are the largest at 42%. Smaller groups are 39% White, 8% multiracial, 5% Black, and 5% Hispanic. County-wide, 14% of Middlesex County residents are Asian. The chance that two students picked at random at Jonas Clarke Middle belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 65%.

At Jonas Clarke Middle, 84.7 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 9.4:1. For comparison, middle schools in Massachusetts average 11.5:1.

Measured against Massachusetts public middle schools, Jonas Clarke Middle receives an A+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.

Jonas Clarke Middle is located in Middlesex County, where median household income is about $130,847, roughly 60% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Federal data list 386 public schools in Middlesex County, with a combined enrollment of about 215,896.

Nearby, Bowman is about 0.7 miles away. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

NCES assigns Jonas Clarke Middle the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Jonas Clarke Middle had 881 students in 2020-21 and 796 in 2024-25, a 10% decrease.

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