Colegrove Park Elementary

Colegrove Park Elementary sits in North Adams, Massachusetts, and is classified as an elementary school. Classes run from 3 through 6, and the school has 369 students.

Colegrove Park Elementary is among 4 schools run by North Adams, which serves 1,419 students.

Colegrove Park Elementary is 76% White by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 11% Hispanic and 10% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Berkshire County's population at about 86%. The school's diversity index is 39%, meaning two students picked at random have a 39% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.

Its teaching staff equals 30.3 full-time positions, a ratio of 12.2:1. That matches the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts fairly closely.

Measured against Massachusetts public elementary schools, Colegrove Park Elementary receives a C+. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.

In Berkshire County (population about 129,430), the median household income is $76,013, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 40%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Colegrove Park Elementary is one of 50 public schools in the county.

Clarksburg Elementary is the public school closest to Colegrove Park Elementary, about 1.3 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8.

In the federal locale system, Colegrove Park Elementary is coded Town: Fringe, for schools in a town close to an urbanized area.

The 2020-21 count was 259 students and the 2024-25 count was 369. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves. By 2024-25, the school had 12.2 students per teacher, compared with 10.0 in 2020-21.

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