NCES CCD 2024-25 12 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Westfield, MA

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

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12
Schools
4,851
Students
42.9/100
Avg Resource Index
12.1:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Westfield has more public-school enrollment than 54% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Westfield 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 Westfield's 12 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 2 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 19-point gap between Westfield Technical Academy and Paper Mill shows the range hidden by Westfield's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 46%
School count
Top 31%
Resource Index average
60th percentile
Teacher staffing
88th percentile

Westfield High accounts for 21.3% of all Westfield public-school enrollment

That concentration means Westfield-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

Westfield school enrollment varies 13× across entities

Westfield school enrollment ranges from 79 students (lowest) to 1,034 students (highest), a spread of 955 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

Westfield operates one school district — a single-district system

Westfield's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Westfield student-teacher ratio is 12.1:1 — 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

# School Score
1. Westfield Technical Academy 51
2. Westfield Intermediate School 49
3. Southampton Road 46
4. Munger Hill 44
5. Fort Meadow Early Childhood Center 44
6. Abner Gibbs 43
7. Westfield Virtual School 43
8. Highland 42
9. Westfield Middle School 41
10. Franklin Ave 41
11. Westfield High 39
12. Paper Mill 32

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Westfield

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 Franklin Ave 62.3/100
  2. 2 Paper Mill 52.7/100
  3. 3 Abner Gibbs 51.6/100
  4. 4 Westfield High 49.0/100
  5. 5 Westfield Intermediate School 48.5/100

What do families ask about schools in Westfield?

Which Westfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Westfield Technical Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Westfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 51/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Westfield, MA? ▼

Westfield has 12 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,851 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.1:1.

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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.