Gardner Elementary School

In Gardner, Massachusetts, part of Worcester County, Gardner Elementary School is an elementary school. It reported 1,087 students in pre-K through 4 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in Massachusetts have about 381 students on average; enrollment here is 185% higher.

Gardner enrolls 2,532 students in 4 schools, including Gardner Elementary School.

The student body at Gardner Elementary School is 54% White. Other reported shares: 32% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, and 5% Black. Worcester County's residents are about 73% White, 19 points above the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 60, compared with 70 nationally.

Staffing at Gardner Elementary School comes to 72.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 15.0:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Massachusetts is 12.2:1.

The school's county is Worcester County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $95,939 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 40% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Public schools in Worcester County number 257, with about 121,490 students.

Gardner Elementary School's closest public school neighbor is Gardner Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. Within five miles of Gardner Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Suburb: Mid-size: in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.

Federal records list enrollment at Gardner Elementary School as 452 in 2020-21 and 1,087 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. Its ratio of students to teachers was 11.6:1 in 2020-21, and 15.0:1 in 2024-25.

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