Shutesbury

Shutesbury is a small community in western Massachusetts whose public school system consists of a single school: Shutesbury Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 125 students, operating within the Shutesbury district. Because the district contains only this one school, district-level test results and school-level results are identical across every subject reported, and there are no middle, high, or alternative schools in the data to compare against. The free/reduced lunch percentage is not reported, so it should be treated as unknown rather than as zero.

The school is a strong performer by every statewide measure available. It earned a 4-star rating in each of the three school years shown and ranked 145th out of 899 schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 84th percentile — up from 195th the prior year. All-grades MCAS results beat the state in every subject: ELA at 64.41% versus 40.03%, math at 61.02% versus 41.11%, and science at 90.91% versus 40.98% in 2025–2026. Science is the clearest standout, exceeding the state by nearly 50 percentage points. Proficiency improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with science up about 16 points.

Grade-level results show the school ahead of the state in ELA at every tested grade and in 3rd, 4th, and 6th grade math. The single exception is 5th-grade math, where the school scored 27.27% against the state's 39.50%. Notably, that same grade scored 90.91% in science. With only about 125 students, a handful of children can shift a grade-level rate by many percentage points, so year-to-year swings should be read with caution. Families should also note that spending data is from 2020–2021 ($25,048 per student) and the student-teacher ratio of 6.8 is from 2024–2025.