Head Start

Head Start, a mid-sized elementary school in Worcester, Massachusetts, overseen by Worcester, hosts 349 students, covering grade pre-K.

Worcester comprises 47 schools with combined enrollment of 24,778 students; Head Start is among them.

Demographically, Head Start logs that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 29% Black, 14% White, 4% Asian. By comparison, Worcester County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Head Start has 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.2:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Worcester County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $95,939 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Worcester County runs 257 public schools (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students), of which Head Start is one.

Jacob Hiatt Magnet is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Head Start has ticked down 34%, going from 529 students in 2018 to 349 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share grew from 20% to 29%. Class-load math has fell: from 17.0:1 in 2018 to 15.2:1 in 2025.

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