Wakefield Public Schools Earn B Grade In New National Ranking

WAKEFIELD, MA — The Wakefield Public Schools earned an overall grade of B in a new batch of nationwide rankings and report cards this week from the education platform Niche.

Niche shared its rankings on Tuesday, giving Wakefield an A- for academics and college prep alongside a B+ for teachers. The district received a C+ for clubs and activities and a C for diversity, administration and sports.

Niche gave Wakefield a C- for resources, facilities and food to generate the cumulative B grade.

Niche ranked Wakefield as the 138th best school district out of 219 in Massachusetts.

Niche awarded individual school-level scores as follows:

• Dolbeare School: B+
• Greenwood School: B+
• Walton School: B-
• Woodville School: B-
• Wakefield Memorial High School: B
• Galvin Middle School: B

Outside of the Wakefield Public Schools, though, Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, which serves students in Wakefield, received a B+ ranking to place 11th out of 38 charter schools in the state.

Mystic Valley earned an A for diversity, an A- for academics and college prep, a B+ for sports and a B- for teachers. Clubs, activities, resources and facilities received a C- while the administration received a D to produce the total B+ ranking.

Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School received a C grade.

It earned an A for sports, an A- for diversity and a B for resources, facilities and food. The school received a B- for teachers, clubs and activities and a C for academics, college prep and administration.

Niche rankings this month classified 92,743 public schools, 30,112 private schools, and 11,820 school districts across the U.S.

In Massachusetts, top districts included the Weston Public Schools, the Hopkinton Public Schools and the Wellesley Public Schools.

The organization arrives at its grades and placements via analysis of a series of public data sets and reviews, as noted in a methodologies page on its website.

Niche said its rankings aim to provide families with quantitative and qualitative information to assess schools in their area or in areas they’re not yet familiar with.

See the Wakefield Public Schools report card here.

And see the full Niche rankings here.