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Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School
This school has no state test results for 2023-24 or 2024-25 to grade, which is common for schools that end before third grade. How grades work
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 65 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 51 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 53 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 50 | 9% |
| Grade 10 | 39 | 7% |
| Grade 11 | 27 | 5% |
| Grade 12 | 35 | 6% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 17% smaller than its 8th grade class (53).
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 65 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 8 points since 2016, while math scores are down about 7 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.6% | 64.9% |
| 2023-24 | 60.3% | 62.7% |
| 2022-23 | 62.4% | 62.5% |
| 2021-22 | 63.4% | 53.9% |
| 2020-21 | 65.3% | 44.4% |
| 2018-19 | 70.1% | 62.4% |
| 2017-18 | 72.0% | 67.0% |
| 2016-17 | 73.0% | 72.0% |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 584 | 71.5 | 8.2:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 552 | 65.1 | 8.5:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 549 | 63.7 | 8.6:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 560 | 70 | 8.0:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 493 | 63.6 | 7.8:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 439 | 55 | 8.0:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 199 | 20 | 9.9:1 | 12% (23) |
Since 2017-18: students up 18% (493 to 584); teachers up 12% (63.6 to 71.5).
About Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School
Hadley, Massachusetts, is home to Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School, a small combined-grade school. The school reports 584 students in kindergarten through 12. The typical figure for combined schools in Massachusetts is about 870 students.
Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School is administered by Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter.
By race and ethnicity, the largest group at Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School is White (47%). The remaining students are 19% Asian, 16% multiracial, 10% Hispanic, and 7% Black. Census figures show Hampshire County is about 82% White. The chance that two students picked at random at Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 70%.
Its teaching staff equals 71.5 full-time positions, a ratio of 8.2:1. That ratio is under the 10.1:1 average for combined schools in Massachusetts.
Among Hampshire County residents, median household income is about $87,001, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 52%, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School is one of 45 public schools in Hampshire County, which together enroll about 16,626 students.
The closest public school, Hadley Elementary, is about 1.4 miles from Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Small by the National Center for Education Statistics. Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School is a publicly funded charter school.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 560 to 584.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss science fairs, picture day, and bus routes at Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
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