Other / mixed grade configuration · Erving, MA

Erving Elementary

Federal NCES profile for Erving Elementary, including enrollment, faculty, free-lunch eligibility, demographics, and resource indicators - Resource Investment Index 49/100.

2024-25 NCES dataOther / mixed grade configurationNCES 250471000626
0/100100/10049/100
👥 S:T ratio
75
🌟 Gifted program
30
🎓 Counselors
55
📋 Attendance
38
Scored 0–100 from federal NCES and CRDC indicators, resource allocation, not test scores. Full methodology →

The verdict

Erving Elementary earns 49/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 98% of Massachusetts schools.

49
Resource Index · Higher
6.3:1
small classes for Massachusetts
113
students enrolled

Erving Elementary has class sizes smaller than 98% of Massachusetts schools. Computed live against every Massachusetts school reporting to NCES.

School address

Enrollment

113

Massachusetts · 2024-25 NCES data

Teachers (FTE)

18.0

Federal CCD staff survey

Students per teacher

6.3:1

vs 12.3:1 Massachusetts avg

-49% vs state

Student-teacher ratio in context

How Erving Elementary compares with Massachusetts and U.S. medians

Smaller classes than state median
0:135:16.3:1

Source: NCES Common Core of Data As of 2024-25 federal staff survey Total enrollment ÷ full-time-equivalent classroom teachers

What stands out at Erving Elementary

Erving Elementary is a small combined-grade school in Erving, Massachusetts, enrolling 113 students.

Classes run notably small here: at 6.3:1, Erving Elementary is leaner than roughly 98% of Massachusetts schools and 49% under the state's 12.3:1 norm, more adult attention per pupil than most peers.

This is a small campus: fewer students than 94% of Massachusetts schools, with 113 enrolled.

Its Resource Investment Index lands in the upper third of 1,831 scored Massachusetts schools.

Its student body is predominantly White (84% of enrollment) (diversity index 28/100).

Counselor coverage is strong, about 226 students per counselor, inside the American School Counselor Association's recommended 250:1.

Attendance runs somewhat below the norm, with 24.8% of students chronically absent per the 2021-22 civil-rights collection.

The surrounding Erving spends $38,233 per pupil, 70% above the Massachusetts average, a better-resourced district than most.

Erving operates only this one school, so Erving Elementary has no district-mates to compare against locally. At 113 students, it is also a small operation, on the smaller end of Massachusetts's single-school districts.

Sourced from NCES CCD, CRDC, and F-33 (federal records, not a quality verdict). How we source and compute this.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics Common Core of Data + CRDC + F-33 · 2024-25

How Erving Elementary compares

Erving Elementary on the metrics families compare, against Massachusetts and U.S. means.

Metric This school vs Massachusetts Massachusetts avg U.S. avg
Students per teacher 6.3:1 ▼ 49% 12.3:1 15.7:1
Enrollment 113 top 94% - -

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School-level CCD + state/national means from Public School Universe · 2024-25

6.3:1
Leaner classes than 97% of US schools, among the more generously staffed nationally.
113
Bigger than 11% of US schools by enrollment, a small campus.

Equity indicators (what these measure)

Staffing depth
6.3:1
students per teacher - 49% below state mean
Top 2% in Massachusetts - lower ratio than 98% of state schools
Well under the widely cited 15:1 individualized-attention benchmark, among the leaner class loads nationally.
Engagement
24.8%
chronically absent (missed 10%+ of school days)
At or above 20%, the commonly used threshold for "high" chronic absenteeism, signaling significant barriers to regular attendance.
Funding equity
$38,233
per pupil, district-wide - above Massachusetts avg of $22,458
Well above the U.S. public-school average, reflecting substantially higher local or state investment per enrolled student.
Support staff
Counselors0.5 FTE
Student-support staffing from the Civil Rights Data Collection.
Discipline context
1
in-school suspensions + 1 out-of-school
Suspension rate: 0.9 per 100 students. Combined in-school and out-of-school rate: 1.8 per 100 students. Reported via the Civil Rights Data Collection.

Overview

  • Common Core of Data (June 2026): enrollment, staffing, and the student-teacher ratio above.
  • Civil Rights Data Collection: discipline counts and program access (AP, gifted, special education).
  • F-33 School District Finance Survey: the district-wide per-pupil spending figures below.

Three separate federal collections, each on its own reporting cadence - which is why this school's numbers line up on a consistent basis against every other school and state on this site, rather than mixing figures pulled from different survey years.

Student demographics

White 84.1%
Two or More 8.8%
Hispanic or Latino 7.1%

Largest group: White at 84.1% of enrollment.

Student-body diversity index 28.0/100

Simpson diversity index - at 28.0, Erving Elementary is less mixed than the Massachusetts school average of 47.3.

Programs

Funding & spending

District-wide per-pupil expenditure for Erving, which includes Erving Elementary.

$38,233
Per student
+70%
vs Massachusetts
Avg $22,458
+130%
vs U.S.
Avg $16,593
Revenue mix
Local 64.5%
State 31.0%
Federal 4.5%

Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey District-level finance · FY 2021-22 Per-pupil expenditure reflects the district-wide average. Individual school budgets are not reported at the federal level.

Similar other schools statewide

Matched by enrollment size and by staffing ratio across all of Massachusetts, not just this city - a different peer set than the local comparisons above.

Next steps

Verify locally before acting on Erving Elementary's federal record.

Federal record (CCD 2024-25, CRDC 2021-22) - PlainSchools assigns no subjective rating; the composite quality score is a transparent, reproducible index computed from this cited federal data.

Frequently asked questions about Erving Elementary

How many students attend Erving Elementary?

Erving Elementary has 113 students enrolled. It is a public school in Erving, MA.

What is the student-teacher ratio at Erving Elementary?

The student-teacher ratio at Erving Elementary is 6.3:1, which is 49% lower than the Massachusetts average of 12.3:1 and 60% lower than the national average of 15.7:1. Lower ratios generally mean more individual attention per student.

What is the racial and ethnic makeup of Erving Elementary?

The largest demographic group at Erving Elementary is White at 84.1% of enrollment, in Erving, MA.

What is the Resource Investment Index for Erving Elementary?

Erving Elementary has a Resource Investment Index of 49/100 (higher reported resources relative to schools nationally) based on 4 factors: student-teacher ratio, counselor availability, attendance rates. Not a test-score or academic measure (national median ~41/100, see methodology).

Is Erving Elementary a good school?

Erving Elementary earns 49/100 on the Resource Investment Index, with class sizes smaller than 98% of Massachusetts schools. This is a resource snapshot, not an academic rating; see the Resource Investment Index question above for what the number does and doesn't measure.

What other schools are in Erving?

None reported; Erving operates only Erving Elementary as a public school district in NCES's records.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) CCD + Public School Universe (2024-25), CRDC (2021-22), F-33 District Finance Survey (FY 2021-22) · 2024-25 Data as of the 2024-25 school year. Coverage from U.S. Department of Education NCES Common Core of Data. Varies by entity type; administrative districts and certain charter networks may report only a subset of fields.

All federal data sources used on this page

Full source list and how we compute each figure: methodology page.

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