Easthampton
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Easthampton
Ranks #122 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 38%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Easthampton is a city in Hampshire County, located in the Pioneer Valley of western Massachusetts just north of Holyoke and across the Manhan River from Northampton. The Easthampton Public Schools serve the city's students through a single high school, Easthampton High School, which anchors the district's K-12 system. The city has a mix of residential neighborhoods, historic mill-era architecture, and a growing arts and small-business community, reflecting its industrial heritage along the Manhan River. Easthampton's history as a manufacturing center, particularly for paper and metal goods in the 19th and 20th centuries, remains visible in its downtown and riverfront areas.
How it compares
- Strongest area: SAT scores, in the top 40% of districts. Its high schools average 1138 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: Attendance ranks in the bottom 20% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 26.6% in 2022 to 20.1% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 7.5 points since 2023 (40.1995% to 32.7037%); statewide it fell 3.7 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 Easthampton
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 (Easthampton High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
48.8% female · 50.6% male · 0.6% 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 118 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
11.7 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.9% missed 20% or more of school days
About Easthampton
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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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