Van Sickle Academy

Van Sickle Academy is a small middle-grades school found in Springfield, Massachusetts. The school offers grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 262 students. On average, middle schools in Massachusetts enroll around 547, and this school is 52% below that mark.

Springfield runs 66 schools with a combined 23,670 students. Van Sickle Academy is one of them.

Of every 100 students at Van Sickle Academy, about 78 are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 9% Black, 8% White, and 2% Asian. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 27%. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Van Sickle Academy scores 37%.

Van Sickle Academy reports a ratio of 11.4 students per teacher, from 23 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for middle schools in Massachusetts is about 11.5:1.

For the population of Hampden County, the median household earns about $71,306 a year, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Across Hampden County, 168 public schools serve about 68,540 students.

The Springfield Renaissance School an Expeditionary Learning is less than a tenth of a mile away, making it the nearest public school. Van Sickle Academy is one of several public schools in the area, with at least 8 others within five miles.

The school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000, according to its NCES locale (City: Mid-size).

In 2024-25, the school enrolled 262, down from 276 in 2020-21.

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