Gateway Regional School District (Massachusetts)
Gateway Regional School District is a school district serving students from seven Western Massachusetts towns: Huntington, Russell, Blandford, Chester, Montgomery, Middlefield and Worthington. The district consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, and a high school providing educational services to approximately 1,000 students in grades PreK–12. Schools Gateway Regional's system includes: Gateway Regional High School Gateway Regional Middle School Littleville Elementary Chester Elementary At one time, the Gateway district operated five elementary schools. Due to declining student numbers and reduced state revenue, the school committee voted to consolidate elementary schools (thereby closing Blandford Elementary School, R. H. Conwell Elementary School, and Russell Elementary School). Students that would have attended those schools now go to Littleville Elementary School in Huntington, or Chester Elementary School in Chester. R. H. Conwell re-opened under the name of R. H. Conwell Community Education Center for the 2010–2011 school year and is now run as a private school by residents of the town of Worthington. History In 1949, the concept of a regional high school was presented to the townspeople by Superintendent, Dana O. Webber as a solution to the educational facilities problem in this valley. The idea was voted down at that time but