Best High Schools in Zip Code 01247

ZIP code 01247 covers North Adams, Massachusetts, and contains two high schools: Charles McCann Vocational Technical, a regional vocational technical school serving grades 9–12 with 514 students in the Northern Berkshire Regional Vocational Technical district, and Drury High, a district school serving grades 7–12 with 438 students in the North Adams district. Because Drury includes grades 7 and 8, its all-grade figures cover a different student population than McCann's.

On completion, Charles McCann Vocational Technical is clearly stronger: it reports a 97.7% graduation rate and a 1.5% dropout rate, compared with 84.9% and 8.1% at Drury High. That dropout difference means Drury's rate is more than five times McCann's. McCann also holds the higher current school rank, 254 of 353 (28th percentile), versus Drury's 297 of 353 (16th percentile), and it leads in 10th-grade math (21.37% vs 16.28%), science (30.28% vs 10.00%), and end-of-course biology (29.82% vs 19.23%). Drury's standout is 10th-grade English Language Arts, where it posts 32.61% proficiency against McCann's 27.73%. Drury also has the lower student-teacher ratio, 9.8 versus 10.6, and lower reported per-student spending, $19,339 versus $25,282 in 2020–2021.

The most important shared finding is that both schools fall below Massachusetts averages on every reported MCAS Next Generation measure. Drury's 10th-grade science is 30.50 points below the state, and McCann's 10th-grade math is 22.36 points below. Drury's middle-grade results are especially weak, including 1.56% proficiency in 8th-grade ELA and 3.28% in 8th-grade civics, which pulls down its all-grade numbers. McCann, meanwhile, improved across 10th-grade ELA, math, and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Free/reduced-lunch data is not provided for either school, so socioeconomic context cannot be compared from this data.