Summary:
Elementary schools in the Berkshire Hills area of western Massachusetts serve just one school — Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School in Great Barrington — which enrolls 365 students in grades PK–4 and operates within the Berkshire Hills district, ranked 142 of 351 schools (60th percentile, 3 stars). Because there is only one elementary school here, comparisons below are to the district and state rather than to other local schools.
On the 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, the school outperformed the district in every reported subject and grade, and outperformed the state in five of six measures. Its strongest result was 3rd Grade English Language Arts at 60.66% proficient — 17.87 points above the state and slightly above the district — and every reported ELA result beat both the district and the state. Mathematics was more mixed: all-grade math was 45.45% proficient versus 41.11% statewide and 34.00% in the district, but 4th Grade Mathematics came in at 40.58%, the only reported metric below the state's 43.20% (it was still slightly above the district's 40.00%). Grade 3 also outscored Grade 4 in both subjects.
The school is improving. All-grade ELA rose from 46.51% to 52.34% year over year (+5.83 points) and all-grade math from 41.86% to 45.45% (+3.59), while its rank percentile climbed from 53rd to 64th even though its star rating stayed at 3. Its student-teacher ratio is a favorable 9.2, and per-student spending was $25,551 in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported for 2024–2025, so economic context is unknown. The main area to watch is 4th Grade Mathematics.
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