Schools in Zip Code 01151

Zip code 01151 is served by three Springfield public schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — enrolling roughly 1,011 students combined. All three operate within a district that ranks 322 of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 8th percentile with 0 stars, so even the strongest school here is working inside a low-performing district. Note that free/reduced-lunch data are missing for all three schools, and spending figures come from 2020–21 while test scores and ratios are mostly from 2024–25 and 2025–26.

Indian Orchard Elementary is the relative standout. In 2025–26 its all-grade proficiency was 19.91% in ELA, 17.41% in math, and 21.31% in science — roughly matching the district in math and science but about 2.18 points below it in ELA, and about 20 to 24 points below the state. In 2024–25 it beat the district in all three subjects, then lost ground, with math falling from 22.97% to 17.41% and ELA from 22.86% to 19.91%. John F Kennedy Middle has the weakest current results: 8.82% ELA, 4.39% math, 4.6% science, and 3.61% civics in 2025–26, ranking 470 of 478 schools at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars. Its ELA and math both dropped sharply from the prior year.

Springfield Public Day High School is tiny, with 65 students, the lowest student-teacher ratio in the zip at 6.3, and the highest per-student spending at $33,360 — yet it reports a 47.1% graduation rate, a 41.2% dropout rate, 0% ELA proficiency, and 10% math proficiency in 10th grade in 2024–25. Its rank history covers only 2015–16 through 2017–18 and sat at the 1st percentile with 0 stars. Together, the zip shows one comparatively stronger elementary school losing momentum, a middle school with very low and worsening proficiency, and a small high school with severe outcome gaps.