Park Avenue Elementary

Park Avenue Elementary is one of the high-enrollment K-5 schools in Webster, Massachusetts, part of Webster, with 738 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 94% above the state mean of about 381.

Park Avenue Elementary is one of 3 schools operated by Webster, a district that serves 1,712 students overall.

On demographics, Park Avenue Elementary records that 45% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest comes out to 39% Hispanic, 10% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Worcester County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.8:1. That tracks the state average closely.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Worcester County put 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 Park Avenue Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Webster Middle School, around 0.6 miles off. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Park Avenue Elementary operates from an outer-ring location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Park Avenue Elementary has contracted 11%, going from 827 students in 2018 to 738 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 61% to 45%. Class-load math has tightened: from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 11.8:1 in 2025.

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