Summary:
ZIP code 01201 in Pittsfield, Massachusetts is home to three high schools serving grades 6 through 12: Pittsfield High, Taconic High, and Eagle Education Academy, all part of the Pittsfield district. Together they enroll 1,575 students. Taconic High is the largest with 824 students in grades 9–12, followed by Pittsfield High with 727, while Eagle Education Academy is a small program of 24 students spanning grades 6–12. The district itself ranks 287th out of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 18th percentile — with 1 star, so that figure reflects the district rather than any single school.
Pittsfield High posts the strongest academics of the two schools with test data, outperforming Taconic High in every shared MCAS subject in 2025–2026: ELA 10 (32.87% vs. 29.07%), Math 10 (23.40% vs. 13.37%), Science 10 (24.27% vs. 14.55%), Biology (12.50% vs. 8.67%) and Physics (57.45% vs. 12.50%). Its Physics result beats the state's 46.58%. Still, Pittsfield High slipped sharply from the year before, when ELA 10 was 50.00%, and its rank fell from 194/349 with 2 stars to 252/353 with 1 star. Taconic High, meanwhile, has the higher graduation rate — 84.1% vs. 78.8%, against the district's 79.2% — but stays near the bottom on MCAS and rank, holding 1 star in each of the last three years at roughly the 10th–13th percentile.
Eagle Education Academy reports the most extreme outcomes: a 0.0% graduation rate, an 83.3% dropout rate, $37,122 per-student spending and a 2.4 student-teacher ratio. With only 24 students, one or two students can shift those rates dramatically. Spending and class size do not track with results here — Taconic spends the least ($19,037) yet graduates the most, while Eagle spends nearly twice as much with far weaker outcomes, though spending is from 2020–2021 and outcomes from 2024–2025. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all three schools, and Eagle reports no test scores or rank history, which limits a fuller comparison.
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