Pickering Middle

Pickering Middle is a mid-sized middle school. Its address is in Lynn, Massachusetts. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 583 students.

In Lynn, 27 schools enroll a combined 16,364 students.

Hispanic students are 60% of those enrolled at Pickering Middle. Next come 19% White, 11% Asian, 6% Black, and 4% multiracial. That compares with about 24% Hispanic among all Essex County residents. A diversity index of 59% means there is a 59% chance two randomly chosen students at Pickering Middle are from different groups.

The school has 59 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 9.9 students per teacher. The average for middle schools in Massachusetts is 11.5:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher.

In Essex County, the median household earns about $101,883 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Across Essex County, 221 public schools serve about 113,427 students.

Pickering Middle is less than a tenth of a mile from Edward A Sisson, its nearest public school. Pickering Middle has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Federal data place Pickering Middle in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

In 2020-21, Pickering Middle enrolled 590; in 2024-25, 583. Students per teacher dropped from 12.3 in 2020-21 to 9.9 in 2024-25.

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