Monson

Monson is a small Massachusetts district with three schools serving about 800 students in total — Quarry Hill Community School (PK–K, 120 students), Granite Valley School (grades 1–6, 400 students), and Monson High School (grades 7–12, 280 students). There is no separate middle school, so grades 7 and 8 are part of the high school. The Monson district ranks 286th of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 19th percentile, with a 1-star rating. Free and reduced lunch figures are blank for all three schools, so poverty context is unknown, not zero.

Granite Valley School is the academic bright spot among tested schools, beating the district in ELA, Math, and Science in both years measured. Its latest rank is 607th of 899 schools, the 32nd percentile, 2 stars, and its rank has been stable. Grade-level results are uneven: 6th grade Math (40.32%) and 3rd grade ELA (39.34%) come close to state levels, and 5th grade Science (38.24%) is about 4.8 points below the state. But 4th grade Math (22.95%) and 5th grade ELA and Math (both 23.53%) are well below state averages.

Monson High School is the district's main source of concern. It ranks 232nd of 353, the 34th percentile, 2 stars — down from the 49th percentile two years earlier. Its graduation rate is 80.0% and dropout rate 6.7%. All-grade proficiency is 18.55% in ELA, 28.10% in Math, and 23.21% in Science, with 10th grade ELA (38.89%) a bright spot and Math improving sharply from 12.80% to 28.10%. Middle-grade results are weak: 8th grade Civics is 12.73% (the lowest figure in the dataset), 7th grade ELA 19.12%, and 8th grade ELA 17.86%. Quarry Hill Community School has the highest per-student spending at $21,781 but, as a PK–K school, has no test scores or rank.