Summary:
ZIP code 01020 in Chicopee, Massachusetts contains just one middle-level school: Bellamy Middle, which serves grades 6–8, enrolls 776 students, and is part of the Chicopee district. Parents in this ZIP have a single middle-school option, one that is fairly large and staffed at a student–teacher ratio of 9.5, with per-student spending listed at $16,431 for 2020–2021. The free/reduced-lunch rate is not reported in this record, so the school's socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from the available data.
Bellamy's clearest strengths are math and, this year, science. All-grades math proficiency of 29.6% tops the district's 27.34%, and the school beat the district in sixth, seventh, and eighth grade math. Seventh grade is the standout: 29.65% in ELA against the district's 23.38%, and 29.96% in math against the district's 21.91%. Science showed the biggest single leap, climbing from 19.2% to 33.85% in one year, a 14.65-point gain that essentially erased its gap with the district. The school's own rating (2 stars, 34th percentile) is also stronger than the district profile (1 star, 19th percentile), though the school and district comparison pools differ.
The main concerns are ELA and civics. Bellamy trails the state in every ELA grade level, with especially wide gaps in sixth grade (16.73 points below) and eighth grade (15.65 points below). Eighth grade civics sits at 23.46%, above the district's 22.2% but 16.31 points below the state's 39.77%. Math also slipped year over year, from 30.95% to 29.6%, while ELA gained 4.07 points. Bellamy's rank percentile has hovered in the low-to-mid 30s across three recent years, so it remains a lower-middle performer statewide: a school with genuine bright spots and substantial room to close state-level proficiency gaps.
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