Public school / High
Needham High
Needham, Massachusetts
- NCES ID
- 250837001315
- District
- Needham
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Needham High is a public high school in Needham, Massachusetts, run by Needham. It enrols 1,645 students — the 3074th 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
1,645
Teachers
131.0
Students per teacher
12.6
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 Needham
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.
- 1Needham High1,645 students
- 2Pollard Middle818 students
- 3Newman Elementary699 students
- 4Sunita L. Williams Elementary529 students
- 5Broadmeadow510 students
- 6William Mitchell452 students
- 7High Rock School446 students
- 8John Eliot426 students
- Enrollment+262.7%
- Teachers+274.3%
- Students per teacher+5.9%
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