Elias Brookings

Elias Brookings is a low-enrollment elementary campus in Springfield, Massachusetts, operated by Springfield. The school instructs 304 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Elias Brookings sits 20% leaner than that benchmark.

Springfield runs 66 schools in total, collectively educating 23,670 students. Elias Brookings is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Elias Brookings records that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. The remainder looks like 23% Black, 5% White. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Elias Brookings has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Hampden County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,306 per year, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Hampden County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,540 students), of which Elias Brookings is one.

The closest other public school is Kensington International School, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a downtown area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Elias Brookings has declined 11%, going from 343 students in 2018 to 304 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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