Summary:
Zip code 01104 contains 12 schools serving roughly 4,190 students — eight elementary, two middle, and two high schools — most of them part of Springfield Public Schools, plus two charters, Springfield Preparatory Charter School and Baystate Academy Charter Public School. The Springfield district ranks 322 of 351 statewide at the 8th percentile with 0 stars, and the area as a whole sits well below state levels: area ELA averages about 27%, Math about 22%, and Science about 29%, compared with roughly 40–41% statewide.
Two schools stand out academically. Springfield Preparatory Charter School (76th percentile, 4 stars) and Alfred G. Zanetti Montessori Magnet School (71st percentile, 4 stars) are the only schools in the ZIP above the state in all three all-grade subjects; Zanetti's ELA is 55.56%. Samuel Bowles shows the clearest improvement, climbing from the 17th to the 41st percentile with large one-year gains in Science and Math. The Springfield Renaissance School posts a 98.7% graduation rate and 1.3% dropout rate — far better than the district's 82.0% and 9.7% — despite low test scores, and Edward P. Boland School is above the state in Science.
At the other end, Baystate Academy Charter Public School (5th percentile, 0 stars) and Van Sickle Prep (7th percentile, 0 stars) are the lowest performers, with Van Sickle Prep recording the ZIP's weakest math and science. Springfield Public Day Elementary School serves only 33 students at a 3.5 student-teacher ratio and $57,999 per-student spending, so comparisons are limited. Middle school math is a systemwide weakness — 7th-grade math is 1.52% at Van Sickle Prep versus 37.48% statewide — and spending does not track outcomes, since the lowest-spending school shows the strongest proficiency. Free/reduced lunch data are blank for every school, so poverty context is unavailable.
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