17 public K-12 schools in Chicopee from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.
National city placement
According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Chicopee has more public-school enrollment than 73% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Chicopee sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.
Chicopee's list includes 7 elementary, 2 middle, and 3 high-school campuses, plus 5 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.
Chicopee's average Resource Investment Index sits at the 40th percentile, while its teacher-staffing measure sits at the 86th percentile. The 46-point percentile gap is a reminder that the index is not a class-size score: counselors, gifted-program reporting, and attendance also affect it. Compare those components directly when two schools have similar index totals; the same headline score can arise from a different mix of reported resources.
Chicopee school enrollment ranges from 92 students (lowest) to 1,192 students (highest), a spread of 1,100 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
12% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
| # | School | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Chicopee Academy | 65 |
| 2. | Szetela Early Childhood Center | 51 |
| 3. | Chicopee Comprehensive High School | 47 |
| 4. | Lambert-Lavoie | 47 |
| 5. | Streiber Memorial School | 45 |
| 6. | Litwin | 41 |
| 7. | Chicopee High | 39 |
| 8. | Bellamy Middle | 39 |
| 9. | Dupont Middle | 39 |
| 10. | Gen John J Stefanik | 38 |
| 11. | Bowie | 38 |
| 12. | Fairview Elementary | 36 |
| 13. | Belcher | 36 |
| 14. | Bowe | 35 |
| 15. | Hampden Charter School of Science East | 34 |
| 16. | Barry | 28 |
| 17. | Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School | - |
Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.
Chicopee Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Chicopee schools in this federal-data comparison at 65/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.
Chicopee has 17 public schools with a total enrollment of 7,954 students. 2 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 12.3:1.
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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.
