At $20,241 per pupil, Chesterfield-Goshen ranks #272 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Chesterfield-Goshen operates 1 public schools serving 145 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Hampshire County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $20,241 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending. See how Massachusetts compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 53.0% local, 39.0% state, and 8.0% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 126:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 21.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 96.8% White, 2.4% Hispanic or Latino across the district's schools.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses fell 4.1% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (145 to 139 students), and the student-teacher ratio widened by 1.2 students per teacher despite the decline, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $3,145,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 60.7% went to instruction, 32.6% to support services, and 0.9% to capital outlay, a fairly typical instruction/support/capital split for a public school district. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
New Hingham Regional Elementary accounts for 86.9% of all Chesterfield-Goshen student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Chesterfield-Goshen a distant remainder — means Chesterfield-Goshen-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade band: combined. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how the district allocates programs, capital, or staff. Because it contains a majority of the affected population, enrollment-weighted aggregates will sit closer to this entity's reported fields than to those of smaller peers; an unweighted entity count answers a different question.
Chesterfield-Goshen student-counselor ratio is 126:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Chesterfield-Goshen chronic absenteeism rate is 21.4% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Chesterfield-Goshen is typically wider than the Chesterfield-Goshen-aggregate figure suggests.