River Valley Charter
1 elementary school in our rankings
Ranks #248 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–8 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
River Valley Charter is a public charter school district in Massachusetts. Because charter schools operate independently of traditional town school systems, it does not serve a single municipality in the way that a town-based district would. No specific host city or region is identified in the information available for this profile, so its location and student catchment are not described here. The district does not operate a high school, and the community it serves is best understood by consulting the school's own published materials and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
How it compares
- Strongest area: ELA MCAS, in the top 34% of districts. 63% of students in grades 3–8 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 40% statewide in the same grades.
- Area to watch: Math MCAS ranks in the bottom 29% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 23.8% in 2022 to 14.2% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is up 6.3 points since 2023 (57.1361% to 63.3895%), while statewide it fell 2.3 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 River Valley 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.
Students & classrooms
48.6% female · 51% male · 0.3% 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 25 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.6 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 0.7% missed 20% or more of school days