Wood End Elementary School

Wood End Elementary School is one of the close-knit elementary schools in Reading, Massachusetts, part of Reading, with 236 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% below the state mean of about 381.

Reading comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 3,836 students; Wood End Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Wood End Elementary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 7% Asian, 4% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 67% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Wood End Elementary School reports 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.4:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Middlesex County indicate median household income runs about $130,847, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Middlesex County's 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), Wood End Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Arthur W Coolidge Middle, around 1.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Wood End Elementary School operates from a bedroom-community location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wood End Elementary School has shrank 19%, going from 290 students in 2018 to 236 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 89% to 85% across the same window.

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