Sunita L. Williams Elementary

The public elementary school Sunita L. Williams Elementary is located in Needham, Massachusetts. It reports enrollment of 533 students in kindergarten through 5. That puts enrollment 40% above the 381-student average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Sunita L. Williams Elementary is one of 8 schools in Needham, which enrolls 5,493 students in total.

White students are 71% of those enrolled at Sunita L. Williams Elementary. The remaining shares are 11% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, and 4% Black. That is in line with Norfolk County, where about 70% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 48, compared with 70 nationally.

There are 40.7 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 13.1:1. Across elementary schools in Massachusetts, the average ratio is 12.2:1.

In the wider Norfolk County area, median household income comes to about $130,739, roughly 59% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. Norfolk County counts 198 public schools with about 101,300 students.

John Eliot is the nearest public school to Sunita L. Williams Elementary, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment increased 9% over 4 years, reaching 533 in 2024-25.

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