Balliet Preschool

Balliet Preschool is a primary school of micro-enrollment scale in Springfield, Massachusetts, operated by Springfield, works with 99 students in grade pre-K. That puts it 74% below the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 381 students.

Springfield comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 23,670 students; Balliet Preschool is among them.

On demographics, Balliet Preschool lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder is composed of 17% Black, 8% multiracial, 4% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Hampden County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 8.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Balliet Preschool tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, Hampden County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,306 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across Hampden County's 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,540 students), Balliet Preschool is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Thomas M Balliet, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a city-core site.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Balliet Preschool community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.