Schools in Adams, MA

Adams, Massachusetts has two schools in this data set — one elementary school and one high school, with no middle or alternative schools listed — serving a combined 762 students across two very different grade spans. Hoosac Valley Elementary School serves PK–3 with 398 students as part of Hoosac Valley Regional, while Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School serves grades 6–12 with 364 students as a single-school charter district, Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public (District). Note that no school for grades 4–5 appears in this file, and free/reduced-lunch data is blank for both schools, so it should be treated as unavailable rather than as 0%.

Berkshire Arts and Technology is the higher-ranked of the two: district rank 211 of 351 (2 stars), a current school rank of 163 of 353 (3 stars), a 90.0% graduation rate and a 6.7% dropout rate, plus a lower student-teacher ratio of 9.4 versus 11.9 at Hoosac. Its results are strong in 10th-grade ELA (67.74% proficient vs. 45.48% state) and 8th-grade science (61.02% vs. 38.93% state). But its performance is uneven — 6th- and 7th-grade math are far below state levels, and all-grade math is 23.98% versus 41.11% statewide.

Hoosac Valley Elementary ranks 302 of 351 (1 star) overall, but its standout is improvement: ELA rose from 12.09% to 27.78% proficient and math from 5.49% to 19.44% between 2024–25 and 2025–26, moving it above its district average while still well below state averages. Math is a shared challenge, with both schools far under the statewide 41.11%. Hoosac spends more per student ($19,180 vs. $18,350), though that spending data is from 2020–21. Families should weigh BART's stronger overall ranking and secondary-level strengths against Hoosac's younger grade range and recent upward momentum.