Putnam Avenue Upper School

Putnam Avenue Upper School is a small middle school. Its address is in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is open to students in grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 283 students. It has 48% fewer students than the average for middle schools in Massachusetts (about 547).

Cambridge oversees Putnam Avenue Upper School and 16 other schools, with 7,027 students in total.

Of every 100 students at Putnam Avenue Upper School, about 28 are White, the largest group. Smaller groups are 25% Black, 19% Asian, 17% multiracial, and 10% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Middlesex County is roughly 67% White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 78, compared with 70 nationally.

The school had 31.6 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 9.0:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Massachusetts is 11.5:1.

Putnam Avenue Upper School earns an A- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 82% of Massachusetts public middle schools.

In Middlesex County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $130,847, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 60%, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. The county has 386 public schools and about 215,896 students.

Martin Luther King Jr., less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. Within five miles of Putnam Avenue Upper School, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Federal enrollment counts rose from 261 (2020-21) to 283 (2024-25). In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 7.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 9.0:1.

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