Public school / Middle
Vassal Lane Upper School
Cambridge, Massachusetts
- NCES ID
- 250327002756
- District
- Cambridge
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Vassal Lane Upper School is a public middle school in Cambridge, Massachusetts, run by Cambridge. It enrols 273 students — the 69286th 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
273
Teachers
42.0
Students per teacher
6.5
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 Cambridge
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.
- 1Cambridge Rindge and Latin1,867 students
- 2Amigos School407 students
- 3King Open371 students
- 4Graham and Parks362 students
- 5Maria L. Baldwin340 students
- 6Martin Luther King Jr.332 students
- 7John M Tobin320 students
- 8Peabody318 students
- Enrollment−39.8%
- Teachers+20.0%
- Students per teacher−45.4%
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