Middle · Massachusetts
John W. McDevitt Middle School
Free meals for allJohn W. McDevitt Middle School, a public middle school in Waltham, Massachusetts: grades 6–8, 618 students, 9.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Waltham.
Size and class size
Compared with middle schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 618
- Teachers (FTE)
- 64.6
- Students per teacher
- 9.6
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
Fewer students per teacher than 84% of middle schools in Massachusetts
Median 11.5 · 303 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 93% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 65% of middle schools in Massachusetts
Median 531 · 303 schools compared
Larger than 61% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Small city
- Run by
- Waltham
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Waltham.
Location
- Address
- 75 Church Street, Waltham, MA 02453
- Phone
- (781)314-5595
- City or town
- Waltham
- County
- Middlesex County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
John F Kennedy MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 635 | 10.3 |
| 6–8 | 860 | 10.8 | |
Watertown MiddleFree meals for all | 6–8 | 583 | 10.8 |
| 6–8 | 434 | 10.0 | |
| 4–6 | 1,023 | 13.8 | |
| 6–8 | 796 | 9.4 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
NCES 251200001977