NCES CCD 2024-25 10 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in West Springfield, MA

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10 public K-12 schools in West Springfield from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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10
Schools
4,454
Students
43/100
Avg Resource Index
11:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, West Springfield has more public-school enrollment than 50% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. West Springfield sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of West Springfield's 10 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

West Springfield lists only 10 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 89 to 1,231 students, a 14-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 50%
School count
Top 41%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
95th percentile

West Springfield High accounts for 27.6% of all West Springfield public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means West Springfield-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

West Springfield school enrollment varies 14× across entities

West Springfield school enrollment ranges from 89 students (lowest) to 1,231 students (highest), a spread of 1,142 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

West Springfield student-teacher ratio is 11.0:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

1 of West Springfield's 10 listed schools are charters

10% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Mittineague 46
2. John R Fausey 45
3. West Springfield High 44
4. Hampden Charter School of Science West 44
5. West Springfield Early Childhood 43
6. West Springfield Middle 42
7. Tatham 42
8. John Ashley 42
9. Philip G Coburn 41
10. Memorial 41

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in West Springfield

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Memorial 66.6/100
  2. 2 Philip G Coburn 66.5/100
  3. 3 John Ashley 59.7/100
  4. 4 West Springfield High 58.8/100
  5. 5 John R Fausey 57.5/100

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Which West Springfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Mittineague has the highest Resource Investment Index among the West Springfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 46/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in West Springfield, MA? ▼

West Springfield has 10 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,454 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 11:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.