Shining Star Early Childhood Center

At 31 West Fountain Street in Milford, Massachusetts, Shining Star Early Childhood Center operates as a small elementary school. The school offers pre-K and enrolls 158 students. Across elementary schools in Massachusetts, the average enrollment is about 381.

Shining Star Early Childhood Center is among 6 schools run by Milford, which serves 4,512 students.

White students make up 40% of enrollment at Shining Star Early Childhood Center, the largest share of any group. The remaining shares are 39% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% Black, and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Worcester County's population at about 73%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.

With 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, the student-to-teacher ratio is about 17.6:1. Elementary schools in Massachusetts average 12.2:1, 5.4 fewer students per teacher than here.

For the population of Worcester County, the median household earns about $95,939 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. Shining Star Early Childhood Center shares Worcester County with 256 other public schools.

A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, Milford High, is the closest to Shining Star Early Childhood Center. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Shining Star Early Childhood Center.

In the federal locale system, Shining Star Early Childhood Center is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

The 2020-21 count was 92 students and the 2024-25 count was 158. A difference that large may reflect a change in which grades the school serves. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio increased from 13.1:1 to 17.6:1.

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