Salemwood

Set in Malden, Massachusetts, Salemwood is a sprawling elementary-level community, one of the schools within Malden. It instructs 1,033 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 171% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Salemwood is one of 7 schools operated by Malden, a district that works with 6,354 students overall.

Demographically, Salemwood logs that the largest single group is Hispanic at 44%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 27% Black, 15% White, 11% Asian, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 9% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, Salemwood has 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Middlesex County) reports that median household earnings sit near $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. In all, Middlesex County runs 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), of which Salemwood is one.

Mystic Valley Regional Charter School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Salemwood.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Salemwood's enrollment has decreased 15% since 2018, when it stood at 1,217 (now 1,033). The Hispanic share of enrollment edged up from 31% to 44% over that span.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.