Hampden-Wilbraham
1 high school and 2 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Hampden and Wilbraham attend Hampden-Wilbraham schools, including Minnechaug Regional High School.
Ranks #145 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 45%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Hampden and Wilbraham are two suburban towns in Hampden County, located east of Springfield in the Pioneer Valley region of western Massachusetts. Together they form the Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District, which serves students from both communities at Minnechaug Regional High School in Wilbraham. Both towns have a largely residential character with a mix of single-family neighborhoods, farmland, and wooded areas along the Wilbraham hills. Wilbraham is known for the historic Wilbraham Academy, founded in 1825, which later became a foundation for the town's educational tradition.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 16% of districts. Students attend 94.9% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Relative weak spot: Graduation rate ranks in the top 48% of districts, below its other categories.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 19.7% in 2022 to 9.5% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 5.3 points since 2023 (52.6941% to 47.4392%); statewide it fell 4.2 points.
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Schools in Hampden-Wilbraham
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 (Minnechaug Regional High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.6% female · 52.2% male · 0.2% 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 203 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
8.9 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2% missed 20% or more of school days
About the towns
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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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