North Adams
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves North Adams
Ranks #272 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.
North Adams is a small city in the northern Berkshires of western Massachusetts, located near the Vermont and New York state lines and roughly 130 miles west of Boston. The district serves the city through Drury High School and its public schools. North Adams is known for its manufacturing heritage, particularly in the textile and electrical industries, and today it is home to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), housed in a former mill complex. The surrounding Berkshire hills and Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts, are nearby and draw visitors to the area year-round.
How it compares
- Best of its categories: Math MCAS, in the bottom 14% of districts. 22% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 46.3% in 2022 to 30% in 2025.
- Trend: Math MCAS is up 5.4 points since 2023 (17.0698% to 22.4398%).
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 North Adams
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 (Drury High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
46.6% female · 52.9% male · 0.5% 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 125 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
14.7 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 8.9% missed 20% or more of school days
About North Adams
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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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