Summary:
North Adams, Massachusetts has two public elementary schools: Colegrove Park Elementary (grades 3–6, 369 students) and Brayton (prekindergarten through grade 2, 342 students). Together they enroll 711 students with complementary grade spans, so families typically move from Brayton to Colegrove as children progress. Both belong to the North Adams district, which is ranked 335th out of 351 districts in Massachusetts, at the 5th percentile, with 0 stars.
Colegrove Park Elementary is the only school here with MCAS test scores, and it outperformed the district in every tested subject in both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, while still trailing the state average. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 25.61% in ELA (district 20%, state 40.03%), 29.18% in math (district 22.9%, state 41.11%), and 17.72% in science (district 12.42%, state 40.98%). Science is its weakest area — 25.35 percentage points below the state in 5th grade — and it fell from 32.94% the prior year, though grade-level and cohort changes mean that should not be read as a simple decline. Third-grade math was its strongest relative result at 34.12%, only 8.07 points below the state.
Brayton's advantage is in resources rather than measured outcomes. Its student-teacher ratio is 9.7 versus Colegrove's 12.1 — roughly 19.8% lower — and it spent $21,891 per student in 2020–2021 versus Colegrove's $21,371, about $520 more. Because Brayton serves PK–2 and state testing generally begins in grade 3, it has no MCAS results in this data, so the two schools' academics cannot be compared directly. Free and reduced-price lunch figures are blank for both schools, meaning economic need is unknown rather than zero, and the spending numbers are several years old. Recent rank percentiles sit in the low 20s for both schools — above the district's 5th percentile, but still bottom-quartile.
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