Melrose Middle

Melrose Middle operates as a sprawling 6-8 campus in Melrose, Massachusetts, run under Melrose. Current enrollment sits at 886 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 62% bigger than the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 547 students.

Melrose Middle is one of 8 schools operated by Melrose, a district that works with 3,815 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Melrose Middle reports that White students make up the majority at 73%. The remainder comes out to 7% multiracial, 7% Asian, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Melrose Middle shows 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.3:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.5:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Middlesex County shows median household earnings sit near $130,847, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Melrose Middle is one campus in the mix.

Melrose High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Melrose Middle.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Melrose Middle's enrollment has ticked up 14% since 2018, when it stood at 777 (now 886). Over the same period, the White share declined from 79% to 73%.

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