Memorial Spaulding

Located at 250 Brookline Street, in Newton Centre, Massachusetts, Memorial Spaulding is a reasonably sized primary school that educates 342 students (grades K through 5), operated by Newton.

Newton comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 11,632 students; Memorial Spaulding is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Memorial Spaulding lists that 51% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest looks like 28% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 4% Black. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Memorial Spaulding tighter than the state norm the norm.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household income runs about $130,847, roughly 60% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Memorial Spaulding is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Charles E Brown Middle, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Memorial Spaulding.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 25%: 453 students in 2018 compared to 342 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share edged down from 55% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 today.

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