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Springfield

Key educational benchmarks			Springfield	Massachusetts
% of third graders who score proficient or above in reading on MCAS			40.0%	61.0%
% of students graduating high school within four years			52.1%	83.4%
Early education and care
% of children under age 6 with all parents in the labor force			59.5%	66.9%
# of preschool-aged (3-5 yrs) children			6,654	224,901
% of preschool-aged children enrolled in an early education program			45.4%	70.0%
# of public school preschool programs			13	470
# of licensed center-based programs			48	2,202
# of licensed family child care providers			298	7,871
# of programs that are Massachusetts Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) Classroom Quality grantees			4	253
K-12 education¹
# of students enrolled in public school			25,185	953,369
% of public school students identified as low-income²			85.6%	35.2%
% of public school students whose first language is not English			25.0%	16.7%
% of public school students receiving special education services			20.7%	17.0%
% of public school kindergartners attending full-day kindergarten			100.0%	83.0%
# of full-day kindergarten classrooms supported by the MA Quality Full-Day Kindergarten grant			127	2,269

Child population	Birth-5		6-18
	Springfield	Massachusetts	Springfield	Massachusetts
# of children	13,410	442,592	31,048	1,074,498
% of children living below poverty³	44.6%	14.7%	39.0%	12.6%
% who are Black or African American	19.0%	7.4%	21.1%	7.3%
% who are Asian	2.4%	6.3%	2.6%	5.2%
% who are Hispanic or Latino	56.1%	16.9%	52.8%	13.9%
% who are White	18.1%	63.1%	19.9%	69.1%
% of students who are another race, or two or more races⁴	4.3%	6.2%	3.7%	4.4%

¹	Charter and vocational schools excluded from community data. Elementary data for districts with regional secondary schools, combined data for k-12 regional systems.
²	Low-income is defined as up to 185% of the federal poverty guideline, or $40,793 for a family of four.
³	Includes children birth to 17. The 2011 federal poverty guideline for a family of four is $22,350 per year.
⁴	Includes American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.
Sources: Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Census 2010, American Community Survey 06-10, Opinion Dynamics Corporation