Summary
Springfield International Academy at Johnson is a 38-student public elementary school serving grades 3–5 at 55 Catherine Street in Springfield, Massachusetts, within the Springfield district, which ranks 322nd of 351 Massachusetts districts (8th percentile, 0 stars).
On the MCAS Next Generation, the school reported 0% proficiency in English Language Arts, mathematics, and science in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025, and it ranked last statewide among ranked elementary schools in both years of available history (899 of 899 and 906 of 906). The only year on record above zero was 2023–2024, when it reported 4.76% ELA and 5% math—still very low. Subgroup rankings show female students and low-socioeconomic-status students at the 0th percentile (0 stars), while English Language Learner students ranked in the 13th percentile with 1 star, up from the 4th percentile the prior year. At the same time, the student-teacher ratio rose from 9.9 in 2022–2023 to 17.3 in 2024–2025, the highest among nearby comparison schools, and per-pupil spending was $24,039 in 2020–2021, the highest among nearby general-education elementary schools.
Comparisons nearby are striking: Rebecca M Johnson, at the same 55 Catherine Street address, reported 19.7% ELA, 20.91% math, and 26.74% science and ranked at the 15th percentile; Edward P. Boland School, 1.24 miles away in the same district, reported 5th-grade proficiency of 38.89% ELA, 32.39% math, and 42.25% science versus this school’s 0% / 0% / 0%; and Alfred G. Zanetti Montessori Magnet School, 1.34 miles away, ranked at the 71st percentile with 4 stars, with 55.56% ELA, 47.09% math, and 46.97% science while spending less per pupil ($18,033). The 0% figures are exact reported values, not state-suppressed numbers, but small cohorts make year-to-year results volatile; across four reported years the school has never exceeded 5% in any subject. Free/reduced-price lunch data and several subgroup breakdowns are not reported, so the parent picture is partial, though the data does not support resources as the main constraint.
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