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Downtown Shelburne Falls, MA - looking toward bridge and hillside (October 2025)Photo: Marty Aligata · CC BY-SA 4.0
Schools in Shelburne Falls

Shelburne Falls’s public schools

Mohawk Trail School District has no state test or graduation results we can use, so there is no Schools grade for Shelburne Falls. Each school below is shown with its own results.

—Not gradedK–12Where will my kid go?0/4schools above Massachusetts’s middle

Tests spring 2022, when 94% of students in Massachusetts’s tested grades sat them, and the class of 2023’s graduation rate (U.S. Department of Education). How TownRatings grades schools

Reading proficiency
35%
2021–22
Math proficiency
31%
2021–22
Graduate on time
90%
class of 2023
Spent per student
$29.4K
▲ 11% vs MA $26.5K
FY2024
Students per teacher
11.3
MA 11.9 · smaller classes
Schools in town
0
805 students on the public path
In brief

Shelburne Falls’s schools, in brief

School by school

0 of Shelburne Falls’s 4 district schools with test results score above the middle of Massachusetts’s 1,585 public schools. Buckland-Shelburne Regional places highest (better than 47%); Sanderson Academy lowest (27%). See the path ↓

Which school depends on your street

Three elementary schools serve Shelburne Falls, graded from C to B−, so it’s worth checking the specific school. Then one middle school: Mohawk Trail Regional School. See the path ↓

Written from the figures on this page. Tests are from 2021–22, graduation from the class of 2023; each school’s own letter uses 2020–21 results.

Where will my kid go?

Pick a grade. These are the public schools in Shelburne Falls, with each school’s own grade.

The path, start to finish
PK–63 schoolsDepends on your addressC to B−
7–12Mohawk Trail Regional SchoolMohawk Trail School DistrictC

Which school depends on your address. To confirm it, ask the Mohawk Trail School District.

The district

Spending and class size are shown but don’t count toward the grade. Each district’s own page has every school.

Mohawk Trail School DistrictGrades PK–12 · 4 schools · 805 students, up 9% since 2020–21 · 11.3 per teacher (MA 11.9)
$29,406MA $26,530 · FY2024
C−
Test scores · 2021–22

Well below the state in reading

Reading35%
State average 43.7% · 420 students tested
Math31%
State average 40.7% · 418 students tested

Shelburne Falls vs. its neighbors

Schools grades for the Massachusetts towns that share Shelburne Falls’s borders.

Schools next door
TownSchoolsMain districts
Shelburne Falls—Mohawk Trail
BucklandC−Mohawk Trail
ShelburneC−Mohawk Trail
CharlemontD−Hawlemont PK–6 · Mohawk Trail Regional School District in Hawley and Charlemont towns

2 of the 3 neighbors share Mohawk Trail with Shelburne Falls, so their letters differ mainly through other districts.

Every school in Shelburne Falls

4 schools. Each public school’s letter compares its own 2020–21 reading and math results with Massachusetts’s other public schools (the newest school-level results we have).

Also serving Shelburne Fallsin other towns
Buckland-Shelburne Regional
Elementary · Grades PK–6
B−
270 students15:1Rate it →
Sanderson Academy
Elementary · Grades PK–6 · Ashfield
C
125 students12:1Rate it →
Colrain Central
Elementary · Grades PK–6 · Colrain
C+
94 students10:1Rate it →
Mohawk Trail Regional School
High · Grades 7–12
C
316 students9:1Rate it →

Questions about Shelburne Falls’s schools

Are Shelburne Falls’s schools good?

There’s no Schools grade for Shelburne Falls. Mohawk Trail School District has no state test or graduation results we can use, so there is no Schools grade for Shelburne Falls. Each school below is shown with its own results. School by school, 0 of its 4 district schools with test results score above the middle of Massachusetts’s public schools on their 2020–21 results.

What school district is Shelburne Falls in?

Mohawk Trail School District.

Where do Shelburne Falls kids go to high school?

Mohawk Trail Regional School.

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School data: state test results (2021–22, with participation) and four-year graduation rates (class of 2023) reported to the U.S. Department of Education (EDFacts via ED Data Express); each school’s own letter uses its 2020–21 results (EDFacts via the Urban Institute); schools and enrollment from NCES (2024–25; private schools 2023–24); spending from the Census Bureau’s school finance survey (FY2024). Stars are from neighbors.