Summary
Mary M Lynch is a small PK–5 elementary school at 315 No Branch Pkwy in Springfield, MA, part of Springfield Public Schools, with 216 students — the second-smallest of the ten nearby Springfield elementaries compared here. It sits in a very low-ranked district (322nd of 351 statewide, 8th percentile) and ranks 733rd of 899 Massachusetts elementary schools in 2025-26, the 18th percentile with 1 star. That is a real recovery from 2022-23, when it fell to the 7th percentile with 0 stars, but still about half the 36th percentile it reached in 2015-16.
Compared with neighbors, Lynch lands mid-pack: it beats the median of its nine same-district neighbors (15th percentile) but trails local standouts Warner (61st percentile), Frank H Freedman (47th) and Mary M Walsh (41st). Warner is the striking comparison: 1.11 miles away, same district, same PK–5 span, similar enrollment and nearly identical spending ($19,183 vs. $19,088 per student in 2020-21), yet 57.5% math proficiency against Lynch's 16.5%. ELA is Lynch's relative strength at 27.8% — 5.8 points above the district, but 12.2 points below the state — while math falls below even the district's 17.4%. Science sits at 25.0%. Notably, grade 5 ELA (40.63%) clears both district and state; grades 3 and 4 ELA are below district, so that strength reflects one cohort, not the whole school.
Judged against schools serving similar students, Lynch looks better than its overall rank: students from low-income families rank at the 37th percentile and special education students at the 71st percentile (4 stars) in 2024-25 — though these comparative edges are shrinking. The climb out of the 2022-23 trough happened while the student-teacher ratio rose from 9.3 to 11.3, suggesting the turnaround was not simply about added staffing. One caveat for parents: with only about 216 students and grades 3–5 tested, year-to-year swings in any single subject should not be over-read. The clearest opportunity is math instruction.
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