Diversity
Watertown Public Schools At-a-Glance
WPS creates an equitable, challenging, and innovative learning environment where everyone belongs and every student is empowered to shape the world around them.
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Students in Watertown Public Schools are culturally and racially diverse. The state and federal race and ethnicity reportable categories are shown in the bar chart to the right.
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However, the diversity of Watertown’s students is not well represented by the race and ethnicity categories that are collected at the state and federal level. One way ot better understand the culture of our families is to look at the vast number of languages spoken by our students and their families.
Each year, the languages shift and change. For at least 5 years, Spanish and Portuguese have been the highest representation.
45 Additional Languages: Albanian, Amharic, Arawak, Azerbaijani, Bantu, Berber, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Canton Dialect, Creoles and Pidgins (French-based), Czech, Danish, Farsi, Finnish, Georgian, Gujarati, Haida, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kazakh, Korean, Kurdish, Marathi, Mongolian, Panjabi, Polish, Romanian, Sign languages, Sinhalese, Slavic, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan, Tigrinya, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Yoruba