Summary:
ZIP code 01020 covers Chicopee, Massachusetts, and its 10 public schools serve roughly 4,787 students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12 — six elementary schools, one middle school, and three high schools (one of which serves grades 6–12). All of them belong to the Chicopee district, which ranks 283rd of 351 Massachusetts districts. High schools hold the largest share of students (46%), and enrollment ranges from 1,192 at Chicopee Comprehensive High School down to 92 at Chicopee Academy.
Among the elementary schools, Lambert-Lavoie stands out: it is the only school in the ZIP whose all-grades math proficiency (43.24%) beats the state average, and its 5th-grade math reaches 50%. Litwin is the most balanced, scoring above the district in reading, math, and science and climbing from the 29th to the 38th percentile in a year. Bellamy Middle sits near the district average in all three subjects and gained 14.7 points in science. At the high-school level, Chicopee Comprehensive High School leads with a 93.7% graduation rate and a 4.2% dropout rate — both better than the district — while Chicopee High trails at 85.7% and 12.2%.
On the caution side, Fairview Elementary has slipped to the 8th percentile, with math (13.19%) roughly 28 points below the state, and Streiber Memorial School saw science fall 24.5 points in a single year. Chicopee Academy operates in a category of its own: a 55.6% graduation rate, a 33.3% dropout rate, near-zero proficiency, and more than 2.8 times the per-pupil spending of the other schools, alongside the smallest class sizes — a profile consistent with an intensive program for students off the traditional track. Notably, higher spending does not track with higher scores here, and free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable for every school, so economic need cannot be factored in.
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