Lenox Schools Ranked Among U.S. News & World Report's Best Schools

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LENOX, Mass. — Superintendent Dr. William Collins, Principal Dr. Jeremiah Ames and Principal Brenda Kelley shared that Lenox Memorial Middle High School (LMMHS) and Morris Elementary School have been ranked among U.S. News & World Report's Best Schools. 
 
U.S. News released its Best Elementary and Middle Schools rankings on Tuesday, Nov. 14. LMMHS was ranked 78 out of 1,072 middle schools in Massachusetts, placing it in the top 7 percent. Morris Elementary School was ranked 155 out of 1,560 elementary schools in the state, placing it in the top 10 percent.
 
To view the LMMHS' full middle school ranking, click here. To view Morris' full ranking, click here
 
In August, U.S. News released its Best High Schools ranking for 2024. LMMHS was ranked 37 out of 405 high schools in the state, placing it in the top 9 percent. LMMHS was also ranked in the top 5 percent of high schools in the nation.
 
To view LMMHS' full high school ranking, click here
 
Schools ranked in the top 40 percent nationally achieve status as a U.S. News Best School, earning the right to display a U.S. News award badge. Both Lenox schools were awarded badges due to their high rankings. 
 
Schools are ranked on their performance on state-required tests, graduation rates, and how well they prepare their students for high school and college. 
 
"Lenox Public Schools students have proven time and again their dedication to academic excellence. The town of Lenox is a community with a reputation for valuing the lifelong dividends that a high quality and individualized educational experience provides. This reputation attracts like-minded staff, who continuously demonstrate a passion for guiding students toward their goals," said Collins. "I am struck by how Lenox students, faculty, and staff hold each other accountable to live up to the community’s values. They are the backbone of our school community, and the reason why our schools achieve such impressive rankings. I am extraordinarily proud of their hard work."
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The Classical Beat: Tanglewood Music Festival Concludes Its Classical Season

By Stephen DanknerSpecial to iBerkshires

This week, the Tanglewood Music Festival concludes its magnificently curated, presented and performed 2026 classical season, culminating with the traditional performance of Beethoven's enthralling Symphony No. 9 ('Choral'.) Read below for the details.

THREE TANGLEWOOD CLASSICAL HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK

• Thursday, Aug. 20, 8:00 p.m. in Ozawa Hall: The world-renowned Silk Road Ensemble presents "Sanctuary: The Power of Resonance and Ritual." Led by North Carolinian musician, actor and author Rhiannon Giddens, this program explores how we can experience music to better understand our world, find comfort, process loss and a changing environment, and rebuild community, based upon our mutual humanity.

• Saturday, Aug. 22, 8:00 p.m. in the Shed: Conductor Thomas Wilkins leads the Boston Symphony, with violinist Randall Goosby, a 2022 Avery Fisher Career Grantee, boy soprano Edward Njuguna and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in an uplifting program of Leonard Bernstein's mellifluous "Chichester Psalms," Florence Price's Violin Concerto No. 2 and Dvorak's sumptuous Symphony No. 8.

• Sunday, Aug. 23, 2:30 p.m. in the Shed: Maestro Gustavo Gimeno, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra conducts Beethoven's magisterial Ninth Symphony, with vocal soloists soprano Mané Galoyan, mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams, tenor Ben Bliss and bass Solomon Howard.

For tickets for all Tanglewood/BSO concerts (lawn and Shed seating) and for special events call (617) 266-1200 or (413) 637-5180; online: tanglewood.org or customerservice@bso.org. In Lenox, visit the Tanglewood box office at the Main Gate located at 297 West Street.

 

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