The district controls several schools in the city and is led by superintendent Adam Deleidi.
[1] Its offices are located at 360 Lynn Fells Parkway in Melrose.
Public schooling in the area that is currently Melrose was initially under the control of the City of Malden.
At the time of its separation, Melrose contained several small schoolhouses dispersed around the town.
The current members of the Melrose school committee are Margaret Raymond Driscoll (Chair), Dorie Withey (Vice Chair), Jen Grigoraitis (Mayor), Matt Hartman, Seamus Kelley, Jen McAndrew, and Jennifer Razi-Thomas.