Wayland High School

Wayland High School is one of the mid-sized secondary schools in Wayland, Massachusetts, operated by Wayland, with 803 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12.

Across the 6 schools in Wayland (2,701 students total), Wayland High School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Wayland High School logs that White students make up the majority at 64%. Other groups include 17% Asian, 6% multiracial, 6% Hispanic, 6% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 74 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.

In the broader community, 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 the poverty rate sits near 5%. In all, Middlesex County runs 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), of which Wayland High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Happy Hollow School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Wayland High School has contracted 6%, going from 856 students in 2018 to 803 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 69% to 64% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

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