Agawam Early Childhood Center
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 135 | 100% |
Where Agawam Early Childhood Center ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Massachusetts | In Hampden County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 135 | #1,012 of 1,086 | #87 of 93 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 135 | 7 | 19.3:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 150 | 7 | 21.4:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 148 | 8 | 18.5:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 106 | 8 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 163 | 9.5 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 168 | 7 | 24.0:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 124 | 6 | 20.7:1 | 17% (21) |
| 2000-01 | 151 | N/A | N/A | 0% (0) |
Since 2017-18: students down 17% (163 to 135); teachers down 26% (9.5 to 7).
About Agawam Early Childhood Center
Agawam Early Childhood Center is a very small elementary school with its address in Agawam, Massachusetts. Federal data show 135 students enrolled in pre-K in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Massachusetts enroll around 381, and this school is 65% below that mark.
Agawam Early Childhood Center is one of 8 schools in Agawam, which enrolls 3,461 students in total.
More than half of the students at Agawam Early Childhood Center are White (79%). The next largest groups are 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, and 3% Asian. In Hampden County overall, about 64% of residents are White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Agawam Early Childhood Center scores 36%.
There are 7 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 19.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is 12.2:1, so this school has more students per teacher.
The county, Hampden County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $71,306 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting Agawam Early Childhood Center, Hampden County has 168 public schools.
Benjamin J Phelps is about 0.7 miles from Agawam Early Childhood Center, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.
Agawam Early Childhood Center is coded as Suburb: Large in federal locale data.
The school's student count rose 27% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years. Students per teacher increased from 13.3 in 2020-21 to 19.3 in 2024-25.
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