Summary:
Northampton, Massachusetts has four public schools in this data set — two high schools serving grades 9-12 and two elementary schools serving pre-kindergarten through grade 5 — with 2,022 students enrolled across the Northampton district and the Northampton-Smith Vocational Agricultural district. There are no middle schools or alternative schools listed.
Northampton High is the academic standout, ranking #32 of 353 high schools in 2025-26 (91st percentile, 5 stars), a big jump from #85 of 348 two years earlier. Its 10th grade proficiency is far above the state: 68.6 in ELA, 75 in Mathematics, and 77.61 in Science. Jackson Street is the stronger elementary, ranking #263 of 899 (71st percentile, 4 stars) and beating both district and state in ELA, Mathematics, and Science. Bridge Street trails both in every reported subject, ranking #668 of 899 (26th percentile, 1 star); its all-grade Science score is 25 versus 52.38 in the district. Smith Vocational and Agricultural High has the best completion numbers — 96.6% graduation and 1.4% dropout — and the smallest classes, but ranks #300 of 353 (15th percentile, 1 star), with its lowest reported figure Physics, End of Course at 9.43 against a state rate of 46.58.
Spending does not line up neatly with results here. Smith Vocational spends the most per student at $23,303 but posts the lowest test proficiency, while Northampton High spends the least at $15,618 with the highest proficiency. Bridge Street spends more than Jackson Street ($20,273 versus $17,500) with lower outcomes, and their student-teacher ratios are close (10.1 and 10.8). Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all four schools, so socioeconomic context cannot be analyzed from this data.
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