The top reported proficiency rate is 95% in Social studies. The lowest is 79% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Springfield Elementary School
Springfield Elementary School serves kindergarten through fourth grade in New Middletown, a small, predominantly residential village in southeastern Mahoning County. The school sits on the Springfield Local School District campus along Youngstown-Pittsburgh Road, outside the village's Main Street core.
The school enrolls around 376 students across its five grades, with roughly half of students qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. The student body is predominantly white, with small numbers of Hispanic and multiracial students and very few students of other races. Data on special education enrollment and English learner status were not available. The school draws from a community where most households own their homes, many residents are older or semi-retired, and the local economy depends on commuting to nearby employment centers.
Academic performance at Springfield Elementary is strong in math, where the school's proficiency rate places it in the top quartile among schools in Mahoning County. Reading proficiency, measured through English language arts, is solid though somewhat lower. Social studies results from an earlier year showed very high proficiency. Overall, the school's proficiency index across tested subjects exceeds the median performance of schools tested in the county. Participation in state testing is complete; all eligible students take the assessments.
The school's four youngest grades have healthy enrollment; kindergarten and first grade are noticeably smaller than the upper elementary grades, a pattern sometimes seen in communities experiencing modest population changes. Grade three and four show reasonable size for instruction. The breakdown suggests the school is stable in enrollment terms rather than growing or contracting sharply.
New Middletown itself has been slowly declining in population over recent years, though the local housing market has tightened recently, with median home values near the state average and some new residential construction appearing in the community. Most families in the area are car-dependent; there is no public transit, and residents commute to work in nearby cities. Civic life centers on a library branch on Main Street, but the school campus, like many rural and suburban schools, sits apart from the downtown rather than integrated into it.
The school is a regular public school operated by Springfield Local, the district serving this area. No magnet or charter designation applies. Data on staffing, discipline, attendance rates, and specialized course offerings were not available in the materials reviewed. A parent considering this school would encounter a well-performing elementary program in a quiet, owner-occupied residential setting, with an enrollment that mirrors a slowly aging village and a student population drawn largely from families already established locally.
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