Summary:
In Hoosac Valley Regional, there is one middle school, Hoosac Valley Middle School, serving grades 4–7 with 304 students in Cheshire, MA.
For parents, the clearest academic strength is science. In 2025–2026, all-grade science at Hoosac Valley Middle School was 50.88%, above the district’s 34.53% and the state’s 40.98%; 5th-grade science was 50.88%, above the state’s 43.07% by 7.81 points. Science also improved from 44.19% in 2024–2025 to 50.88%, though the district improved more. Math and ELA are the main gaps. All-grade math was 17.94% versus the state’s 41.11%, a 23.17-point gap, and ELA was 23.10% versus 40.03%, a 16.93-point gap; both were close to district results. Sixth grade is the relative bright spot: ELA was 38.46%, only 1.80 points below the state and above the district’s 36.14%; math was 24.36%, above the district’s 22.89% but below the state’s 42.59%. Fourth- and fifth-grade math were especially low: 10.00% versus 43.20% statewide in 4th grade, and 13.79% versus 39.50% in 5th grade. Fourth-grade ELA was 13.19%, 24.24 points below the state.
Trends are mixed. ELA declined from 27.37% to 23.10%, math was essentially flat from 17.99% to 17.94%, and science rose from 44.19% to 50.88%. The Hoosac Valley Regional district was ranked 302 of 351, at the 14th percentile with 1 star. The school’s rank moved from 362 of 493 in 2023–2024, at the 27th percentile with 1 star, to 308 of 484 in 2024–2025, at the 36th percentile with 2 stars, then to 326 of 478 in 2025–2026, at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars. The student-teacher ratio was 9.7 in 2024–2025, and per-student spending was $17,802 in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch is blank/unknown—not zero. No test values in this record are suppressed or bounded.
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