Wellesley Middle

Wellesley Middle is an intermediate school of high-enrollment scale in Wellesley, Massachusetts, overseen by Wellesley, enrolling 919 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 68% above the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 547 students.

Wellesley Middle is one of 10 schools operated by Wellesley, a district that serves 4,127 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Wellesley Middle reports that 61% of the student body identifies as White; the rest breaks down as 20% Asian, 8% multiracial, 7% Hispanic, 5% Black. By comparison, Norfolk County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Wellesley Middle has 102 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.5:1, putting Wellesley Middle tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Norfolk County indicate median household earnings sit near $130,739, 59% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Norfolk County's 198 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,300 students), Wellesley Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Sprague Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

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

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wellesley Middle has contracted 19%, going from 1,128 students in 2018 to 919 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 72% to 61% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 9.0:1 today.

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