Public school / Primary
Merriam School
Acton, Massachusetts
- NCES ID
- 250171000029
- District
- Acton-Boxborough
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Merriam School is a public primary school in Acton, Massachusetts, run by Acton-Boxborough. It enrols 431 students — the 46555th largest of 1,862 public schools in Massachusetts.
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
431
Teachers
32.0
Students per teacher
13.5
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.
Within Acton-Boxborough
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.
- 1Acton-Boxborough Regional High1,683 students
- 2Raymond J Grey Junior High825 students
- 3Blanchard Memorial School506 students
- 4Mccarthy-Towne School446 students
- 5Merriam School431 students
- 6Luther Conant School408 students
- 7C.T. Douglas Elementary School377 students
- 8Paul P Gates Elementary School350 students
- Enrollment−5.0%
- Teachers−8.6%
- Students per teacher+13.4%
Where this sits
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