The top reported proficiency rate is 26% in English language arts. The lowest is 17% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Boyd Elem.
Boyd Elementary is a regular public school in Springfield, Missouri, serving students from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade. It is part of the Springfield R-XII school district, the largest district in the region, and sits in a central area of the city on Washington Avenue. The school is not a charter or magnet institution, and no Title I designation was available in the data.
Springfield itself is a mid-sized regional hub that functions as the commercial and medical anchor of southwest Missouri. The city hosts a mix of healthcare systems, including the region's two largest hospitals, corporate headquarters for several national retailers, and multiple universities and colleges clustered around the downtown core. The local economy draws on healthcare, manufacturing, retail, distribution, and education, and the city has seen modest population growth in recent years. Housing values in the zip code area around the school sit below the state benchmark, and rents are similarly positioned, making this part of Springfield a relatively affordable place to live by Missouri standards. The district recently approved a bond issue for facility improvements across its schools, funded without a tax-rate increase, and has also implemented a district-wide middle school redesign affecting scheduling and elective offerings, though that change applies to the middle grades rather than Boyd's elementary population.
Boyd's enrollment is moderate for an elementary school serving seven grade levels, with a notable concentration in pre-kindergarten. The student body is predominantly white, with a substantial Black share, a smaller Hispanic share, and a modest share of students identifying as two or more races. The proportion of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch is well above the majority, indicating that a high share of families rely on this program. Data on students with individualized education programs and English learner status was not available, so a parent may want to follow up with the school directly on those support structures.
On the Missouri Assessment Program, Boyd's results for the 2024-25 school year show a pattern of relatively low attainment. In third-grade math, roughly one in five students scored at the proficient level, and the same was true for third-grade English language arts. Fifth-grade math also showed about one in five students proficient, while fifth-grade ELA came in higher at roughly one in three. Fifth-grade science results were lower still. Results for fourth grade in both math and ELA were not reported, and the data did not provide a reason for that suppression. Compared with other schools across districts in Greene County, the data places Boyd's overall proficiency index in the bottom quartile. There is no multi-year trend information available, so it is not possible to say from the data whether these results represent a change from previous years.
The school offers no program-level data in the available record, and fields on course access, staffing, discipline, and attendance are also absent. Without those, a family considering Boyd would want to inquire about class sizes, enrichment offerings, and school climate directly from the school or the district. The school serves only elementary grades, so there is no graduation rate to consider, and the absence of chronic absenteeism data is a gap worth investigating.
Boyd Elementary sits in a district that is investing in its physical plant and has made recent pedagogical changes at the middle school level. For a family looking at this school, the affordability of the surrounding housing market is a practical draw, and the school's pre-K program is a notable offering given the enrollment concentration in that grade. The academic picture, based on the state's own proficiency measures, is one where the school is working from a low baseline relative to other Greene County schools, and a parent should expect to have conversations about how the school is addressing that.
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