The Children's Way Preschool

The Children's Way Preschool is a small elementary school in Wayland, Massachusetts. Classes run from pre-K, and the school has 52 students. Against the 381-student average for elementary schools in Massachusetts, enrollment here is 86% lower.

Wayland runs The Children's Way Preschool along with 5 other schools, enrolling 2,701 students in total.

The Children's Way Preschool's enrollment is 56% White. The next largest groups are 25% Asian, 10% Hispanic, and 8% multiracial. In Middlesex County overall, about 67% of residents are White. The Children's Way Preschool has a diversity index of 61%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.

The count of teachers at The Children's Way Preschool is 4.5 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 11.6:1. Across elementary schools in Massachusetts, the average ratio is about 12.2:1.

In Middlesex County (population about 1,638,365), median household income is about $130,847, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 60%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. A total of 386 public schools operate in Middlesex County, serving about 215,896 students.

The next-closest public school is Claypit Hill School, about 1.2 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of The Children's Way Preschool.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.