Public school / Middle
Walter S Parker Middle
Reading, Massachusetts
- NCES ID
- 250999001612
- District
- Reading
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Walter S Parker Middle is a public middle school in Reading, Massachusetts, run by Reading. It enrols 464 students — the 41943rd 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
464
Teachers
44.0
Students per teacher
10.5
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 Reading
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.
- 1Reading Memorial High1,096 students
- 2Walter S Parker Middle464 students
- 3Arthur W Coolidge Middle429 students
- 4J Warren Killam406 students
- 5Joshua Eaton389 students
- 6Birch Meadow358 students
- 7Alice M Barrows356 students
- 8Wood End Elementary School246 students
- Enrollment+2.3%
- Teachers+25.7%
- Students per teacher−11.8%
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