Schofield
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 33 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 53 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 57 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 20% smaller than its 5th grade class (55).
School pathway
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 70 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 2 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.0% | 68.0% |
| 2023-24 | 69.0% | 73.0% |
| 2022-23 | 73.0% | 77.0% |
| 2021-22 | 70.0% | 79.0% |
| 2020-21 | 79.0% | 64.0% |
| 2018-19 | 84.0% | 75.0% |
| 2017-18 | 78.0% | 73.0% |
| 2016-17 | 75.0% | 70.0% |
Where Schofield ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Massachusetts | In Norfolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.0% | #121 of 920 ▼ 42 | #40 of 104 ▼ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.0% | #73 of 920 ▼ 18 | #22 of 104 ▼ 6 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -5.5pp | #156 of 901 | #17 of 103 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 291 | #741 of 1,086 | #85 of 123 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #231 of 938 | #17 of 110 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.5% | #436 of 938 | #61 of 110 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.8% | #87 of 602 | #10 of 49 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 291 | 26.7 | 10.9:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 299 | 26.2 | 11.4:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 333 | 28.3 | 11.8:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 335 | 25 | 13.4:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 377 | 25 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 368 | 22 | 16.7:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 356 | 22 | 16.2:1 | 9% (33) |
| 2000-01 | 297 | N/A | N/A | 3% (8) |
| 1990-91 | 243 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (377 to 291); teachers up 7% (25 to 26.7).
About Schofield
Schofield is an elementary school with a street address in Wellesley, Massachusetts. It is open to students in kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 291 students. It has 24% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Massachusetts (about 381).
Schofield is one school in a 10-school district, Wellesley, which enrolls 4,127 students.
Federal enrollment data show Schofield is 65% White. Next come 15% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 3% Black. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 54%.
Based on 26.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, Schofield has a ratio of 10.9:1. The average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is 12.2:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher.
In Norfolk County, the median household earns about $130,739 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 59%, and about 4% of people live in poverty. Norfolk County has 198 public schools with about 101,300 students, including Schofield.
About 0.5 miles separate Schofield from the closest public school, Preschool at Wellesley Schools. The five-mile area around Schofield holds at least 8 other public schools.
The NCES locale for Schofield is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment in 2024-25 stood at 291, compared with 335 in 2020-21. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio dropped to 10.9:1, from 13.4:1.
The allk12 page for Schofield lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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