Summary:
ZIP code 01220 covers Adams, Massachusetts, and contains just two schools serving 762 students combined: Hoosac Valley Elementary School, a PK–3 school with 398 students in the Hoosac Valley Regional district, and Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School, a grades 6–12 charter school with 364 students in the Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public (District). The two schools sit within blocks of each other but serve non-overlapping grade bands, which means no school listed here serves grades 4 or 5 — families in Adams look outside this list for those years.
On 2025-26 state tests, both schools trail Massachusetts in English language arts and math, and math is the weaker subject at each. Hoosac Valley Elementary scored 27.78% proficient in ELA (state 40.03) and 19.44% in math (state 41.11); BART scored 31.34% in ELA and 23.98% in math. BART's standout result is science, where it reached 61.02% — about 20 points above the state — and its 10th-grade ELA score of 67.74% is roughly 22 points above state. BART also reports a 90.0% graduation rate with a 6.7% dropout rate. Hoosac Valley Elementary posted the largest year-over-year movement in the ZIP, gaining 15.69 points in ELA and 13.95 points in math and moving from below its own district to above it in both subjects, though its absolute scores remain far below state and its numbers reflect a single grade-3 cohort.
Resources look similar — $19,180 per student at Hoosac Valley Elementary versus $18,350 at BART — but BART's student-teacher ratio is lower (9.4 versus 11.9). Rankings differ more than proficiency does: the elementary school's district sits at the 14th percentile with 1 star, while BART is at the 40th percentile with 2 stars, even though the two schools are separated by only 3.56 points in ELA. BART is strongest in its upper grades and weakest in middle-school math; Hoosac Valley Elementary is well-resourced but currently low-scoring, with a clear recent upward trend.
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