Summary:
Zip code 01376 covers Turners Falls, Massachusetts, and contains three public schools serving 964 students in total: two elementary schools and one high school, with no middle school in the area. The elementary grades are split between two schools in the Gill-Montague district — Hillcrest Elementary School covers PK–1 with 122 students, and Sheffield Elementary School covers grades 2–5 with 199 students. Franklin County Technical, operated by the Franklin County Regional Vocational Technical district, is the only high school, serving grades 9–12 with 643 students.
Franklin County Technical dominates enrollment, holding roughly 66.7% of all students listed. It has the only completion data in the file: a 93.8% graduation rate and a 5.6% dropout rate for 2024–2025, yet its 2025–2026 proficiency sits below the state in every reported subject, from Biology EOC at 33.72% (state 37.68%) to Physics EOC at 20.93% (state 46.58%). Sheffield Elementary School shows the most dramatic swing: all-grade science reached 41.67% in 2024–2025, slightly above the state's 41.51%, then fell to 11.76% in 2025–2026 against a state figure of 40.98%; its 5th-grade ELA and Math each came in at 8.57%. Sheffield's rank percentile slid from 23 to 16 to 10, ending at 0 stars. Hillcrest Elementary School has no test, rank, or graduation data, but leads on inputs with $26,018 per-student spending and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 8.5.
Two gaps matter for families. First, there is no middle school in 01376, so the local progression runs PK–1 at Hillcrest Elementary School, then grades 2–5 at Sheffield Elementary School, then grades 9–12 at Franklin County Technical — grades 6–8 are not covered locally. Second, free/reduced lunch figures are blank for all three schools, and the spending data from 2020–2021 is older than the 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 test and ratio figures, so comparisons between dollars and current outcomes should be made cautiously.
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