Linden

Linden is a high-enrollment elementary school with its address in Malden, Massachusetts. Students in kindergarten through 8 attend, and enrollment is 813 students. The typical figure for elementary schools in Massachusetts is about 381 students.

Malden runs Linden along with 6 other schools, enrolling 6,354 students in total.

Enrollment at Linden is mixed, with Hispanic students the largest group at 28%. After that, the student body is 25% Asian, 20% White, 20% Black, and 5% multiracial. Census figures show Middlesex County is about 9% Hispanic. The chance that two students picked at random at Linden belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 77%.

Dividing enrollment by its 59.5 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 13.7:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Massachusetts is 12.2:1, lower than at this school.

Middlesex County has about 1,638,365 residents, and median household income is about $130,847, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 60%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Middlesex County number 386 and enroll about 215,896.

The nearest public school is Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, at about 0.5 miles. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Linden has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.

A comparison of 2017-18 and 2024-25 shows enrollment down 7%, from 871 to 813. Among racial and ethnic groups, the biggest change was White students, from 34% to 20%.

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