Best Public Schools in Easthampton, MA

Easthampton, Massachusetts, has three public schools serving roughly 1,586 students: two are listed as elementary but actually run through grade 8 — Mountain View School (PK–8) and Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School (K–8) — plus one high school, Easthampton High (9–12). Mountain View and Easthampton High sit in the Easthampton district, while Hilltown belongs to its own Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public (District). The area summary shows zero middle schools, but that is a classification quirk, not a missing grade span.

Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School is the academic standout. In 2025–2026 it beat the state in every reported subject: ELA 54.55 vs. 40.03, math 47.13 vs. 41.11, science 62.50 vs. 40.98, and 8th-grade civics 76.92 vs. 39.77. Easthampton High shows the most momentum, rising from 1 star and the 27th percentile in 2023–2024 to 3 stars and the 67th percentile in 2025–2026. All its reported high-school results are above state, and it posts a 94.9% graduation rate and a 3.0% dropout rate.

Mountain View School is the largest, with 991 students — about 62.5% of enrollment — and the highest student-teacher ratio, 11.9, but its overall results trail state in ELA (31.38), math (39.41), science (39.62), and 8th-grade civics (28.87). Math and science grades are relative strengths; middle-school ELA, roughly 13–15 points below state, is the clearest weakness. Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School's ELA average is 23.17 points above Mountain View's. Keep in mind free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable, spending data is partial and from 2020–2021, and small cohorts make year-to-year swings less reliable.