Skip to content
BCER

Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 5

William Mitchell, Needham, MA

William Mitchell is a public elementary school in Needham, part of Needham School District. It enrolled 424 students in 2024-25, with 12.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
424
Teachers (FTE)
33.0
Students per teacher
12.8
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is 0.7 higher than the district figure of 12.1. The Massachusetts average across schools is 12.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.8
District12.1
Massachusetts12.0
United States15.3

School details

Address
187 Brookline Street, Needham, MA 02492
Phone
(781)455-0466
District
Needham School District
County
Norfolk County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Suburb: Large
NCES school ID
250837001317
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Direct certification
13Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other elementary schools in Needham School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.