Early Childhood Education Center

Early Childhood Education Center serves students in Springfield, Massachusetts, as a small elementary school. Its 165 students are spread across pre-K. The typical figure for elementary schools in Massachusetts is about 381 students.

Springfield is the local district for Early Childhood Education Center. It runs 66 schools with 23,670 students.

By race and ethnicity, Early Childhood Education Center is 71% Hispanic. It is also 21% Black, 4% multiracial, and 3% White. For comparison, the population of Hampden County is roughly 27% Hispanic. Early Childhood Education Center has a diversity index of 45%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.

Federal staffing data show 18.3 full-time-equivalent teachers at Early Childhood Education Center and a ratio of 9.0:1. That ratio is under the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Within Hampden County, median household income is about $71,306, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 29%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Hampden County number 168 and enroll about 68,540.

The school nearest to Early Childhood Education Center is Rebecca M Johnson, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of Early Childhood Education Center, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 124 to 165. Students per teacher rose from 7.3 in 2020-21 to 9.0 in 2024-25.

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