An equity score of 46/100 ranks Mohawk Trail #109 of 362 districts in Massachusetts (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $29,272 per pupil, Mohawk Trail ranks #50 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Mohawk Trail operates 4 public schools serving 797 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 4 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 Franklin County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,272 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending. See how Massachusetts compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 57.7% local, 34.6% state, and 7.7% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 46/100, ranked #109 of 362 in Massachusetts against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 4 schools offering Advanced Placement (14 AP courses district-wide), a 135.8:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 24.3% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 91.4% White, 3.5% Hispanic or Latino, 1.8% African American across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Buckland-Shelburne Regional, with a diversity index of 23.0/100.
Its largest campus is Mohawk Trail Regional School, enrolling 316 students (39% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Colrain Central, at 94 students, a 3x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Enrollment across the district's NCES-reporting campuses grew 2.3% between 2022-23 and 2023-24 (788 to 806 students), while the student-teacher ratio widened by 0.9 students per teacher, per the NCES Common Core of Data annual universe files.
Of the district's $25,948,000 in reported FY2023 expenditures, 49.9% went to instruction, 37.3% to support services, and 0.5% to capital outlay, support-services-heavy relative to typical districts, reflecting spending on transportation, administration, or student services. Figures come from the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey's function-level breakdown, not the aggregate per-pupil figure above.
Mohawk Trail Regional School accounts for 39.3% of all Mohawk Trail student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Mohawk Trail-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. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.
Mohawk Trail school enrollment varies 3.4× across entities
Mohawk Trail school enrollment ranges from 94 students (lowest) to 316 students (highest), a spread of 222 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Mohawk Trail student-counselor ratio is 136:1 — 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.
Mohawk Trail chronic absenteeism rate is 24.3% — 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 Mohawk Trail is typically wider than the Mohawk Trail-aggregate figure suggests.