Westfield
2 high schools and 5 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Westfield
Ranks #220 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.
Westfield is a city in Hampden County in western Massachusetts, located along the Westfield River roughly 10 miles west of Springfield and about 20 miles southeast of the Pioneer Valley's Amherst area. The Westfield Public Schools serve the city with two high schools, Westfield High School and the Westfield Technical Academy, a vocational-technical option. Westfield is known for its historic downtown and for being the home of the Westfield State University campus, which was founded in 1839 as a normal school. The city's mix of residential neighborhoods and small-city character gives the district a suburban-to-small-city feel within the broader Springfield metropolitan area.
How it compares
- Best of its categories: ELA MCAS, in the bottom 39% of districts. 33% 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 32.2% in 2022 to 21.7% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 6 points since 2023 (38.9114% to 32.9316%); statewide it fell 4.1 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 Westfield
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. "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.6% female · 52.4% male
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 418 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
12.4 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 6% missed 20% or more of school days
About Westfield
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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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