Summary:
North Adams, MA is home to three schools in this list — two elementary schools and one high school — serving a total of 1,149 students from PK through grade 12. All three sit inside the North Adams district, which ranks 335th of 351 districts in Massachusetts, at the 5th percentile with 0 stars. That context matters: every school here lands in the bottom quartile of its state comparison, and none holds more than 1 star in recent rank history.
Among the two schools with MCAS results, Colegrove Park Elementary is the relative standout. Its all-grade proficiency beats the district in ELA (25.61% vs. 20.00%), Math (29.18% vs. 22.90%), and Science (17.72% vs. 12.42%), and its grade 3 Math score of 34.12% is the highest single result in the list. Even so, it stays below state averages in every subject, and its Science dropped 15.22 points year over year. Drury High, the largest school at 438 students in grades 7–12, is the only one with completion data: an 84.9% graduation rate and 8.1% dropout rate, both essentially in line with the district. Its test results are very low — 9.15% ELA, 9.86% Math, 6.25% Science — with grade 8 particularly weak (1.56% ELA, 4.69% Math, 3.28% Civics).
Brayton serves PK–2, so it has no MCAS scores to compare. It stands out instead for resources: the highest per-student spending ($21,891 in 2020–2021) and the lowest student-teacher ratio (9.7). Colegrove has the highest ratio (12.1) yet the best tested outcomes, so resources do not simply explain results. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for any of the three schools, and spending figures are historical.
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