Jackson Street

Among the schools in Northampton, Massachusetts, is Jackson Street, a small elementary school. Its enrollment is 279 students, spread over kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in Massachusetts, the average enrollment is about 381.

Northampton runs Jackson Street along with 5 other schools, enrolling 2,496 students in total.

About 67% of the student body at Jackson Street is White. The remaining students are 20% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 4% Black, and 2% Asian. Among people living in Hampshire County, the White share is about 82%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 51%.

Jackson Street has 25.8 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.8:1. The school's 10.8:1 compares with an average of 12.2:1 for elementary schools in Massachusetts.

Census data for Hampshire County show the median household earns about $87,001 a year, roughly 52% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Jackson Street, Hampshire County has 45 public schools.

Jackson Street's nearest public school is Smith Vocational and Agricultural High (about 0.6 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles.

NCES lists the school's locale as City: Small. That means it sits inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.

In 2020-21, Jackson Street enrolled 328 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 279.

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