Sumner Avenue

Sumner Avenue is an elementary school of mid-tier scale in Springfield, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Springfield, instructing 490 students in grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 29% bigger than the state mean of about 381.

Springfield comprises 66 schools with combined enrollment of 23,670 students; Sumner Avenue is among them.

Looking at the student body, Sumner Avenue logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 18% Black, 7% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Sumner Avenue has 47 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.2:1, putting Sumner Avenue tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the area at large, Hampden County reports that median household income runs about $71,306, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Sumner Avenue is one of 168 public schools in Hampden County (combined enrollment of about 68,540 students).

The closest other public school is Springfield Realization Academy, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 17%: 589 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 61% to 67% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 today.

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