Summary:
ZIP code 01031 covers Gilbertville, Massachusetts, and contains exactly one public school: Hardwick Elementary, an elementary campus serving grades PK through 5 with 169 students. It is part of the Quabbin district. Because it is the only school in the zip, parents have no in-town peer to compare against — the meaningful comparisons are against the Quabbin district and Massachusetts as a whole.
Hardwick Elementary is the stronger link in a district that ranks in the 29th percentile statewide. The school posts higher proficiency than Quabbin in English language arts and math in both years of data (ELA up about 7.5 and 5.0 points; math up about 1.1 and 1.3 points). Yet it trails the state average in all six all-grade subject and year combinations. The clearest bright spot is 4th grade ELA, where 48.57% of students were proficient versus 37.43% statewide — about an 11-point advantage. Math is the weaker core subject relative to the state, and science is the real concern: at 15.79% proficient, it sits well below both the district (31.85%) and the state (40.98%), and it fell sharply from 28.57% a year earlier. Fifth grade is the weakest grade level overall, including 10.53% proficient in math.
The school's ranking has also slipped, from 3 stars and the 55th percentile in 2023–24 to 2 stars and about the 35th percentile in the two most recent years, placing it in the bottom third of Massachusetts elementary schools. One important caveat: with 169 students spread across PK–5, each tested grade is small, so a single student can move a grade-level percentage by several points. Grade-by-grade swings should be read as suggestive; the all-grade figures and the multi-year trend are the more reliable signals. In short, this is a school that outperforms its own district, especially in reading, but has real work to do in math, science, and 5th grade.
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