Chicopee
2 high schools and 8 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Chicopee
Ranks #238 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Chicopee is a city in Hampden County in western Massachusetts, located on the Connecticut River just north of Springfield in the Pioneer Valley. It is served by a single public school district with two high schools, Chicopee Comprehensive High School and Chicopee High. The city has a mix of residential neighborhoods, industrial areas, and commercial corridors, and its position along the river has long shaped its economic and civic development. Chicopee was historically a center of manufacturing, and it remains part of the broader Springfield metropolitan area.
How it compares
- Best of its categories: SAT scores, in the bottom 29% of districts. Its high schools average 1077 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 41.7% in 2022 to 24.9% in 2025.
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 Chicopee
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. "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.7% female · 52.2% 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 616 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
13 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 6.6% missed 20% or more of school days
About Chicopee
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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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