Agawam
1 high school and 4 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Agawam
Ranks #158 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 49%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Agawam is a suburban town in Hampden County, located just south of Springfield in the Pioneer Valley region of western Massachusetts. The town sits along the Connecticut River, and its Agawam Public Schools serve students through Agawam High School. Agawam is known for Six Flags New England, the regional amusement park that has long been one of the area's best-known attractions. The town's name derives from a Native American word associated with the local landscape, and it has grown from a largely agricultural community into a residential suburb of the Springfield metropolitan area.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Math MCAS, in the top 38% of districts. 35% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Area to watch: Graduation rate ranks in the bottom 22% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 35.3% in 2022 to 24.7% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 5.4 points since 2023 (40.7503% to 35.3529%); statewide it fell 3.9 points.
A district's overall rank is the average statewide percentile of its ranked schools, with a 10% discount for single-school districts. Category standings compare the average of each district's ranked schools and count only districts with data. How we rank
Schools in Agawam
We rank high schools that report SAT results and elementary schools with grade 3 MCAS results, so some of the district's schools (middle schools, for example) aren't listed. Elementary ELA and Math are 2024–2026 averages of grade 3 results.
MCAS results
Share of students meeting or exceeding expectations, compared with the state. Statewide 10th-grade results dropped after 2024, when passing the MCAS stopped being a graduation requirement. There was no test in 2020.
High school results
Averages of the district's ranked high schools (Agawam High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.9% female · 52% male · 0.1% nonbinary
Spending & teachers
Spending is total per-pupil expenditure from all sources. Dollar figures aren't adjusted for inflation. "MA median" is the middle district in each year; small districts can spend far more per student, so the median is a fairer yardstick than the average. Salary is the average across 278 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
13.4 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 4% missed 20% or more of school days
About Agawam
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Town figures are FY2026 averages for single-family homes from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Assessed values usually run below recent sale prices. "MA median" is the median of the state's 351 towns.
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