Mary M Walsh

Located at 50 Empress Ct, in Springfield, Massachusetts, Mary M Walsh is a cozy elementary school that serves 232 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under Springfield. Enrollment runs roughly 39% below the state mean of about 381.

Springfield comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 23,670 students; Mary M Walsh is among them.

In terms of who attends, Mary M Walsh shows that 68% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 15% Black, 15% White. By comparison, Hampden County as a whole is about 27% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Mary M Walsh has 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.5:1. The state averages around 12.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Hampden County) reports that median household earnings sit near $71,306, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Mary M Walsh is one of 168 public schools in Hampden County (combined enrollment of about 68,540 students).

Nearest neighbor: Springfield International Charter School, around 0.8 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Mary M Walsh has shrank 21%, going from 295 students in 2018 to 232 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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