Public school / Primary
Walter J. Paton School
Shrewsbury, Massachusetts
- NCES ID
- 251077001719
- District
- Shrewsbury
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Walter J. Paton School is a public primary school in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, run by Shrewsbury. It enrols 291 students — the 66875th 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
291
Teachers
25.0
Students per teacher
11.6
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 Shrewsbury
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.
- 1Shrewsbury High School1,823 students
- 2Sherwood Middle School948 students
- 3Oak Middle School944 students
- 4Major Howard W. Beal School609 students
- 5Floral Street School519 students
- 6Spring Street School308 students
- 7Walter J. Paton School291 students
- 8Calvin Coolidge School247 students
- Enrollment−35.8%
- Teachers−28.6%
- Students per teacher−2.5%
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