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Public school / Middle

John W. Mcdevitt Middle School

Waltham, Massachusetts

NCES ID
251200001977
District
Waltham
School type
Regular
Title I
Not designated

John W. Mcdevitt Middle School is a public middle school in Waltham, Massachusetts, run by Waltham. It enrols 595 students — the 27257th largest of 1,862 public schools in Massachusetts.

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Reported figures, 2022–2023

The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.

Enrollment

595students

27257th nationally, tied with 75

Teachers

70.0FTE

6733rd nationally, tied with 219

Students per teacher

8.5students

4879th nationally, tied with 222

How these figures are defined

Enrollment

Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.

Teachers

Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.

Students per teacher

Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.

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Within Waltham

Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.

Enrollment — same district
  1. 1Waltham Sr High1,751 students
  2. 2John F Kennedy Middle600 students
  3. 3John W. Mcdevitt Middle School595 students
  4. 4Northeast Elementary School507 students
  5. 5Douglas Macarthur Elementary School477 students
  6. 6Henry Whittemore Elementary School385 students
  7. 7William F. Stanley Elementary School383 students
  8. 8James Fitzgerald Elementary School378 students
Distance from the state median

Baseline: Massachusetts median across 1,862 public schools. Bars right of the rule are above it.

  • Enrollment+31.2%
  • Teachers+100.0%
  • Students per teacher−28.6%
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Where this sits

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Sources & licence

Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.

Provenance

National Center for Education Statistics
Common Core of Data — school and district directory
Current · as of August 17, 2026U.S. Public Domain (NCES)

Collected and published by NCES; retrieved through the Urban Institute Education Data Portal, which republishes the NCES files unchanged.

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Data as of September 1, 2022.