Newton Early Childhood Program

Newton Early Childhood Program is a low-enrollment elementary school in Newton, Massachusetts. It had 173 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K. That compares with an average of about 381 students for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Newton enrolls 11,632 students, and its 22 schools include Newton Early Childhood Program.

The largest group at Newton Early Childhood Program is White students, at 39%. Other students are 24% Asian, 17% multiracial, 13% Hispanic, and 8% Black. That is lower than the 67% White share among all Middlesex County residents. The diversity index for Newton Early Childhood Program is 74%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

The school lists 17.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.0:1. Statewide, elementary schools in Massachusetts average 12.2:1.

In the surrounding county, Middlesex County, median household income comes to about $130,847, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 60% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 5%. The county has 386 public schools and about 215,896 students.

F A Day Middle is about 0.2 miles from Newton Early Childhood Program, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Small, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

In 2020-21, Newton Early Childhood Program enrolled 125 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 173. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 8.3:1 in 2020-21 to 10.0:1 in 2024-25.

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