Forest Park Middle

Forest Park Middle is a low-enrollment middle-grades school located in Springfield, Massachusetts. The school has 282 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. That compares with an average of about 547 students for middle schools in Massachusetts.

Springfield is the local district for Forest Park Middle. It runs 66 schools with 23,670 students.

Of every 100 students at Forest Park Middle, about 66 are Hispanic. The school is also 22% Black, 8% White, and 2% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 27%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Forest Park Middle scores 51%.

The school has 27.3 full-time-equivalent teachers and a ratio of 10.3 students per teacher. Middle schools in Massachusetts average 11.5:1, 1.2 more students per teacher than here.

In the surrounding county, Hampden County, the median household earns about $71,306 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 29% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 12%. The county has 168 public schools and about 68,540 students.

Springfield Realization Academy, less than a tenth of a mile away, is the closest public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.

The school's locale code, City: Mid-size, means it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Federal counts for Forest Park Middle: 641 students in 2020-21, 282 in 2024-25. A gap this wide can follow a change in the grades offered. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.3:1.

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