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Granite Valley School
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 33 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 31 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 19 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 13 points.
About Granite Valley School
Granite Valley School is a moderately sized elementary-level community in Monson, Massachusetts, run under Monson. The school works with 400 students in grades 1 through 6.
Within Monson, which oversees 3 schools and 800 students, Granite Valley School is one campus in the system.
On demographics, Granite Valley School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). The remainder looks like 8% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 64% White, putting the school's mix visibly more White than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 12.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.
Around the school, Hampden County reports that median household income runs about $71,306, 29% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, Hampden County runs 168 public schools (combined enrollment of about 68,540 students), of which Granite Valley School is one.
Nearest neighbor: Quarry Hill Community School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 2 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in a rural area.
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