Marblehead Veterans Middle School

Marblehead Veterans Middle School is a middle-grades school of low-enrollment scale in Marblehead, Massachusetts, overseen by Marblehead, serveing 411 students in grades 7 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 547 students per school, that is 25% below typical.

Marblehead runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 2,564 students. Marblehead Veterans Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Marblehead Veterans Middle School shows that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest reads as 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Essex County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Marblehead Veterans Middle School logs 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.5:1, putting Marblehead Veterans Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Essex County put median household income runs about $101,883, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Essex County's 221 public schools (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students), Marblehead Veterans Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Village School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marblehead Veterans Middle School.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 16%: 489 students in 2018 compared to 411 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share decreased from 89% to 84%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 10.8:1 today.

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