Williams

Located at 50 Bushey Road, in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, Williams is a close-knit elementary-level community that educates 264 students (grades pre-K through 5), part of Pittsfield. Enrollment runs roughly 31% below the state mean of about 381.

Within Pittsfield, which oversees 14 schools and 4,873 students, Williams is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Williams logs that the largest single group is White, at 65% of enrollment; the rest comes out to 16% Hispanic, 8% Black, 6% multiracial, 4% Asian. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.7:1. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the area at large, census data for Berkshire County shows the typical household earns roughly $76,013 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Berkshire County's 50 public schools (combined enrollment of about 14,704 students), Williams is one campus in the mix.

Egremont is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Williams.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Williams's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 319 (now 264). The White share of enrollment declined from 77% to 65% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

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