Summary:
Zip code 01230 is served by three public schools in the Berkshire Hills district, forming a complete PK–12 pipeline: Muddy Brook Regional Elementary School (PK–4, 365 students), W.E.B. Du Bois Regional Middle School (5–8, 326 students), and Monument Mt Regional High School (9–12, 431 students) — 1,122 students in all. The district ranks 142 of 351 in Massachusetts, the 60th percentile, with 3 stars, and each of the three schools also currently shows 3 stars. Two caveats: free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all three schools, and spending figures are from 2020–2021 while student-teacher ratios are from 2024–2025.
Each school has a distinct strength. Muddy Brook posts the strongest elementary English language arts results — 52.34% proficient across all grades and 60.66% in 3rd grade, versus state rates of 40.03% and 42.79% — plus the highest per-student spending at $25,551 and the top rank percentile, 64. Monument Mt's standout is science: 10th-grade science is 56.10% against 40.50% statewide, about 15.6 points above state, and Biology End of Course is 9.8 points above state; its 10th-grade ELA also rebounded from 40.51% to 50.55%, moving from below state to above it. W.E.B. Du Bois is the most improved, climbing from the 48th percentile in 2023–24 to the 61st in 2025–26 and from 2 stars to 3, and it now sits above state in ELA, science and 8th-grade civics.
Math is the shared weak spot, and it emerges in the secondary grades. W.E.B. Du Bois's all-grades math is 30.32% against 41.11% statewide, with 5th, 6th and 7th grades far below state, and Monument Mt's 10th-grade math is about 10 points below state; elementary math, by contrast, is above state at 45.45%. The middle school also has the largest student-teacher ratio at 10.2, versus 9.2 at the other two — a correlation worth noting, not a causal one. For 2024–25, Monument Mt's graduation rate was 87.1% (district 86.5%) and its dropout rate 9.3% (district 9.2%), with no state benchmark provided.
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