NCES CCD 2024-25 15 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Pittsfield, MA

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15 public K-12 schools in Pittsfield from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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15
Schools
4,977
Students
44.5/100
Avg Resource Index
11.9:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Pittsfield has more public-school enrollment than 55% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Pittsfield 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.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

10 of Pittsfield's 15 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 25-point gap between Eagle Education Academy and Pittsfield Public Virtual Academy shows the range hidden by Pittsfield's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 45%
School count
Top 23%
Resource Index average
68th percentile
Teacher staffing
89th percentile

Taconic High accounts for 16.6% of all Pittsfield public-school enrollment

That concentration means Pittsfield-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Pittsfield school enrollment varies 34× across entities

Pittsfield school enrollment ranges from 24 students (lowest) to 824 students (highest), a spread of 800 students. That ratio is among the widest observed and reflects extreme heterogeneity inside a single city, with small specialty programs listed alongside large comprehensive campuses. 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

Pittsfield operates one school district — a single-district system

Pittsfield's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Pittsfield student-teacher ratio is 11.9:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

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.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Eagle Education Academy 54
2. Robert T. Capeless Elementary School 53
3. Stearns 52
4. Crosby Educational Academy 52
5. Williams 51
6. Theodore Herberg Middle 48
7. John T Reid Middle 45
8. Allendale 45
9. Taconic High 43
10. Pittsfield High 42
11. Egremont 42
12. Crosby 41
13. Morningside Community School 37
14. Silvio O Conte Community 34
15. Pittsfield Public Virtual Academy 29

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Pittsfield

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.

  1. 1 Silvio O Conte Community 72.5/100
  2. 2 Morningside Community School 71.3/100
  3. 3 Crosby 71.2/100
  4. 4 Allendale 68.1/100
  5. 5 Eagle Education Academy 68.0/100

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Which Pittsfield school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Eagle Education Academy has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Pittsfield schools in this federal-data comparison at 54/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Pittsfield, MA? ▼

Pittsfield has 15 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,977 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.9:1.

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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.