Summary:
North Adams, Massachusetts has four schools serving about 1,663 students: two elementary schools and two high schools, with no standalone middle school because grades 7–8 are housed at Drury High. Brayton serves PK–2 (342 students) and Colegrove Park Elementary serves grades 3–6 (369). At the secondary level, Drury High covers grades 7–12 (438) and Charles McCann Vocational Technical covers grades 9–12 (514). Three schools belong to the North Adams district, while McCann is part of Northern Berkshire Regional Vocational Technical.
The schools differ most in outcomes. McCann has the strongest completion results: a 97.7% graduation rate and 1.5% dropout rate in 2024–2025, versus 84.9% and 8.1% at Drury. Yet McCann's MCAS proficiency stays below state levels, and its own record is mixed — stronger than Drury in 10th grade math (21.37% vs. 16.28%) and science (30.28% vs. 10.00%), but lower in 10th grade ELA (27.73% vs. 32.61%). Colegrove Park beats the North Adams district average in ELA, math, and science in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, but trails the state in all three and saw science fall from 32.94% to 17.72%. Drury's middle grades are the clearest weak point: 8th grade proficiency is 1.56% in ELA, 4.69% in math, 6.25% in science, and 3.28% in civics. Brayton has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 9.7 but no MCAS records, which fits its PK–2 grades.
Overall, every school with reported MCAS data scores below the state in every subject. Per-student spending (2020–2021) ranges from $19,339 at Drury to $25,282 at McCann, and student-teacher ratios are fairly close — Colegrove 12.1, McCann 10.6, Drury 9.8, Brayton 9.7 — without matching achievement patterns. Free/reduced-lunch data are blank for all four schools, so economic comparisons are not possible from this dataset.
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