Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter
1 high school in our rankings
Ranks #37 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 12%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School is a public charter school serving students in the Pioneer Valley region of western Massachusetts, which lies along the Connecticut River between Springfield and the Vermont and New Hampshire borders. The school offers a Mandarin Chinese immersion program, in which instruction in core subjects is delivered largely in Chinese alongside English. As a charter school, it operates under a charter granted by the state and is open to students through a public enrollment process rather than by residential assignment. The Pioneer Valley is known for its agricultural heritage, its college communities centered on Amherst, Northampton, and Springfield, and its scenic river valley landscape.
How it compares
- Strongest area: ELA MCAS, in the top 2% of districts. 65% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Relative weak spot: Graduation rate ranks in the top 46% of districts, below its other categories.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 20.1% in 2022 to 9% in 2025.
- Trend: Math MCAS is up 5.8 points since 2023 (62.1325% to 67.9308%).
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 Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter
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 (Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
48.3% female · 51% male · 0.7% 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 65 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
7.7 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.9% missed 20% or more of school days