Clarksburg
1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Clarksburg
Ranks #142 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 44%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–8 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Clarksburg is a small rural town in the northern Berkshires of western Massachusetts, located near the Vermont border in the Hoosac Valley. The Clarksburg Public Schools district serves the town's K–8 students, and high school students in this district attend school elsewhere, as is common for small towns without a high school. The town is known for its agricultural landscape and its hilltop setting, with the Mount Greylock State Reservation nearby to the south. Clarksburg's residents are served by a quiet, country character typical of the northern Berkshires.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 26% of districts. Students attend 95% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: ELA MCAS ranks in the bottom 33% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 21.8% in 2022 to 10.5% in 2025.
- Trend: Math MCAS is down 9.1 points since 2023 (36.5289% to 27.4%).
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 Clarksburg
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.
Students & classrooms
47.4% female · 52.6% male
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 17 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
8.8 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.3% missed 20% or more of school days
About Clarksburg
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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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