Summary:
Belchertown, Massachusetts has five schools serving pre-kindergarten through 12th grade — two elementary, two middle, and one high school — with a combined enrollment of 2,043 students. The Belchertown district runs as a clean grade-band pipeline: Cold Spring (PK–K), Swift River Elementary (1–3), Chestnut Hill Community School (4–6), Jabish Middle School (7–8), and Belchertown High (9–12). Grades 4–8 are the largest block at 837 students, about 41% of enrollment, while the high school adds 573 students, or 28%.
Belchertown High is the clear academic standout. Its SchoolDigger rank climbed from the 69th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 85th percentile in 2025–2026, rising from 3 stars to 4 stars, with a current rank of 52 of 353. Its 2025–2026 MCAS results are above the state in every reported subject — roughly +22 points in 10th grade ELA, +14 in math, +27 in science, and +29 in biology. It reports an 89.7% graduation rate and a 7.5% dropout rate for 2024–2025, and has the district's lowest student-teacher ratio at 11.9.
Elsewhere, Jabish Middle School holds steady around the 61st–65th percentile with 3 stars, with ELA and science above state but math and civics near or below. Chestnut Hill Community School shows wide grade-level variation: 6th grade ELA is 62.25 versus a state 40.26, and 4th grade ELA is 51.57 versus 37.43, yet math is below state in grades 4, 5, and 6, and 5th grade science is 33.12 versus 43.07. Swift River Elementary's 3rd grade ELA is above state while its math is slightly below. Cold Spring has no test data; it is the smallest school at 188 students and reports the highest per-student spending, $17,236 (2020–2021). Free/reduced-price lunch figures are blank for all five schools, so socioeconomic comparisons are not possible here.
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