Steward Elementary

Located at 261 Perkins Row, in Topsfield, Massachusetts, Steward Elementary is a middle-of-the-pack elementary campus that instructs 347 students (grades pre-K through 3), part of Topsfield.

Across the 2 schools in Topsfield (598 students total), Steward Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Steward Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest comes out to 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 68%.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Essex County shows the typical household earns roughly $101,883 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Steward Elementary is one of 221 public schools in Essex County (combined enrollment of about 113,427 students).

Nearest neighbor: Proctor Elementary, around 1.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Steward Elementary.

The school occupies an outlying site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Steward Elementary has fell 9%, going from 381 students in 2018 to 347 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.0:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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