Malden High

Malden High is a high-enrollment high school serving families in Malden, Massachusetts. Enrollment is 1,890 students in 2024-25, and the school serves grades 9 through 12. Against the 777-student average for high schools in Massachusetts, enrollment here is 143% higher.

Malden enrolls 6,354 students, and its 7 schools include Malden High.

Enrollment at Malden High is mixed, with Hispanic students the largest group at 30%. Other reported shares: 23% White, 22% Black, 20% Asian, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 9% Hispanic among all Middlesex County residents. Malden High has a diversity index of 76%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.

Staffing totals 117.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.1:1. For comparison, high schools in Massachusetts average 23.4:1.

Measured against Massachusetts public high schools, Malden High receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.

Malden High is located in Middlesex County, where median household income is about $130,847, about 60% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Malden High is one of 386 public schools in Middlesex County, which together enroll about 215,896 students.

The next-closest public school is Malden Early Learning Center, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).

The 2024-25 enrollment of 1,890 was 9% higher than in 2020-21, when it was 1,739. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio rose to 16.1:1, from 14.6:1.

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