Summary:
Zip code 01351 covers Montague, Massachusetts, and contains two listed public schools — Great Falls Middle (grades 6–8, 228 students) and Turners Fall High (grades 9–12, 199 students) — both part of the Gill-Montague district, together serving grades 6–12 with 427 students and no elementary or alternative schools in this list.
Neither school performs above the Massachusetts average. Great Falls Middle posts all-grade proficiency of 21.54% in ELA, 22.45% in math, and 23.46% in science — roughly 17.5 to 18.7 percentage points below state. Turners Fall High has the higher results of the two: 30.43% in 10th-grade ELA, 33.33% in math, and 24.39% in science, still below state in every subject. The sharpest weaknesses are Great Falls Middle's 6th-grade math proficiency of 3.77% — the lowest reported figure in the data — and Turners Fall High's Biology proficiency of 0% in both reported years, against state rates of 37.68% and 39.02%. The high school also reports an 81.6% graduation rate and a 14.3% dropout rate for 2024–2025.
Both schools improved in 2025–2026. Great Falls Middle gained in all-grade ELA (+3.75 points), math (+4.89), science (+5.15), and 8th-grade civics (+13.24), and its rank moved from 402/484 (17th percentile) to 349/478 (27th percentile). Turners Fall High posted the largest single gain in the data, with 10th-grade ELA rising 14.64 points from 15.79% to 30.43%, plus 8.76 points in 10th-grade science; it remains 1 star, below its 2-star, 39th-percentile rating in 2023–2024. Both schools are rated 1 star, and the Gill-Montague district ranks 285/351 at the 19th percentile. Spending is high relative to results — $22,178 per student at the middle school and $24,269 at the high school, with low student-teacher ratios of 9.7 and 8.5 — but small cohorts mean percentages can swing year to year. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for either school.
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