Gardner Elementary School

Gardner Elementary School is a substantial elementary campus in Gardner, Massachusetts, overseen by Gardner. The school works with 1,087 students in grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Massachusetts's public schools average about 381 students each, so Gardner Elementary School sits 185% bigger than that benchmark.

Gardner runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,532 students. Gardner Elementary School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Gardner Elementary School shows that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school records 32% Hispanic, 8% multiracial, 5% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.0:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

In the area at large, Worcester County reports that median household earnings sit near $95,939, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Worcester County runs 257 public schools (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students), of which Gardner Elementary School is one.

Gardner Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gardner Elementary School.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gardner Elementary School has grew 97%, going from 552 students in 2018 to 1,087 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 32% across the same window.

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