Summary:
ZIP code 01075 covers South Hadley, Massachusetts, and includes two elementary schools serving a combined 636 students: Plains Elementary, which serves prekindergarten through grade 1, and Mosier, which serves grades 2 through 4. Because the two schools cover different grade levels, they are not direct academic peers — students generally move from Plains into Mosier as they progress. Both schools belong to the South Hadley district.
Mosier is the only school here with test data, since state testing begins in grade 3. Its results improved from the prior year: it rose from 1 star to 2 stars and from the 27th to the 32nd percentile, and it now scores slightly above the district in English language arts and clearly above it in math (32.55 vs. 27.06). Both subjects still trail the state, with ELA about 7.9 points below and math about 8.6 points below. Grade 3 ELA is essentially at the state level (42.20 vs. 42.79), while grade 4 is the weak point — grade 4 ELA is 12.77 points below the state and grade 4 math is 11.69 points below.
Plains stands out for resources rather than test scores: it spends $18,585 per student, about $3,862 — or 26.2% — more than Mosier's $14,723, with a student/teacher ratio of 13.7 compared with Mosier's 13.3. District-wide, South Hadley ranks 243 of 351 districts at the 31st percentile with 2 stars, and Mosier's own rank of 613 of 899, at the 32nd percentile with 2 stars, fits that profile closely. Keep in mind that free/reduced-lunch figures are unknown for both schools, spending data is from 2020–2021, and Plains has no test results, so comparisons between the two remain limited.
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