Vassal Lane Upper School

Vassal Lane Upper School runs as a small middle school in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The school covers grades 6 through 8 and reported 298 students in 2024-25. That puts enrollment 46% below the 547-student average for middle schools in Massachusetts.

Across its 17 schools, Cambridge enrolls 7,027 students. Vassal Lane Upper School is one of those schools.

The largest group at Vassal Lane Upper School is White students, at 36%. The remaining students are 27% Black, 17% Asian, 12% Hispanic, and 7% multiracial. Census figures show Middlesex County is about 67% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Vassal Lane Upper School scores 75%.

Staffing at Vassal Lane Upper School comes to 42.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 7.0:1. By comparison, the average for middle schools in Massachusetts is 11.5:1.

Among Massachusetts public middle schools, Vassal Lane Upper School outscored 73%, which works out to a B+ on the allk12 Grade.

In the wider Middlesex County area, the median household earns about $130,847 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 60% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Middlesex County counts 386 public schools with about 215,896 students.

Kennedy-Longfellow sits less than a tenth of a mile from Vassal Lane Upper School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

Under the NCES locale system, Vassal Lane Upper School is City: Mid-size.

Enrollment at Vassal Lane Upper School was 291 in 2020-21 and 298 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.

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