Public school / Middle
Robert E. Melican Middle School
Northborough, Massachusetts
- NCES ID
- 250888001440
- District
- Northborough
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Robert E. Melican Middle School is a public middle school in Northborough, Massachusetts, run by Northborough. It enrols 537 students — the 32970th 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
537
Teachers
52.0
Students per teacher
10.3
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 Northborough
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.
- 1Robert E. Melican Middle School537 students
- 2Lincoln Street286 students
- 3Fannie E Proctor252 students
- 4Marguerite E Peaslee251 students
- 5Marion E Zeh251 students
- Enrollment+18.4%
- Teachers+48.6%
- 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