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Boston had exactly one elementary school in the U.S. News list of top 100 in Mass.
All of the public elementary schools in the top 10 were in eastern Massachusetts.
The U.S. News & World Report released its rankings of Massachusetts’ top public elementary schools, with one Boston school in the top 10.
But Eliot K-8 Innovation School, which serves students in kindergarten through eighth grade in the North End, was the only Boston school in the list of 100 elementary schools, mostly surrounded by elementary schools in the wealthy suburbs that make up the metro area.
The rankings used standardized test scores to put together state and district lists.
“Half of the formula assessed the scores themselves and the other half incorporated the test results in the context of socioeconomic demographics,” U.S. News & World Report said. “In other words, the top-ranked schools are all high-achieving and have succeeded at educating all their students.”
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The reason Eliot, a school with just under 800 students and a 14:1 student-teacher ratio, ranked so high was because 66% of its students scored at or above proficiency in math and 73% in reading.
The other schools in the top 10 were all located in eastern Massachusetts, and most were in the Greater Boston area.
In fact, the highest rank school in western Massachusetts was Williamstown Elementary — located near the border of New York and Vermont, at No. 49.
The top 10 also included some of the wealthiest communities in Massachusetts, including Wellesley, Weston, Dunstable, and Newton.
Some school districts, like Belmont, Wellesley, and Newton, saw multiple schools make the list — and in the case of Belmont and Newton, those districts had two schools show up in the top 10 alone.
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Here are the top 100 public elementary schools in Massachusetts, according to the U.S. News & World Report:
- Albert S. Woodward Memorial School, Southborough
- Winn Brook Elementary, Belmont
- Hunnewell Elementary, Wellesley
- Mason-Rice Elementary, Newton
- Eliot Elementary, Boston
- Mary Lee Burbank Elementary, Belmont
- Spring Street School, Shrewsbury
- Swallow/Union School, Dunstable
- Woodland Elementary, Weston
- John Ward Elementary, Newton
- Hildreth Elementary, Harvard
- John D. Hardy Elementary, Wellesley
- Wampatuck Elementary, Scituate
- William E. Sheehan School, Westwood
- Governor Edward Winslow Elementary, Marshfield
- Vinson-Owen Elementary, Winchester
- Martha Jones School, Westwood
- Paul P. Gates Elementary, Acton
- Luther Conant School, Acton
- Daniel Butler Elementary, Belmont
- Alcott Elementary, Concord
- South Elementary, Hingham
- Maria Hastings Elementary, Lexington
- Bowman Elementary, Lexington
- Roger E. Wellington Elementary, Belmont
- High Plain Elementary, Andover
- Paul Hanlon School, Westwood
- Ambrose Elementary, Winchester
- John M. Tobin Elementary, Cambridge
- Huckleberry Hill Elementary, Lynnfield
- North Falmouth Elementary, Falmouth
- Margaret A. Neary School, Southborough
- Field Elementary, Weston
- Joseph Estabrook Elementary, Lexington
- Broadmeadow Elementary, Needham
- J.F. Kennedy Memorial School, Franklin
- Manchester Memorial Elementary, Manchester
- J. Harding Armstrong Elementary, Westborough
- Peirce Elementary, Newton
- Chickering Elementary, Dover
- Loker School, Wayland
- Downey School, Westwood
- Martin Luther King Jr. School, Cambridge
- Lincoln Street Elementary, Northborough
- Joseph E. Fiske Elementary, Wellesley
- Heights Elementary, Sharon
- Old Post Road School, Walpole
- Elm Street School, Walpole
- Williamstown Elementary, Williamstown
- William L. Foster Elementary, Hingham
- Carlisle School, Carlisle
- Bridge Elementary, Lexington
- Joshua Eaton Elementary, Reading
- Burke/Memorial Elementary, Medway
- East Elementary, Sharon
- Countryside Elementary, Newton
- Hopkins Elementary, Hopkinton
- Maria L. Baldwin School, Cambridge
- Annie E. Fales Elementary, Westborough
- Katharine Lee Bates Elementary, Wellesley
- Elmwood Elementary, Hopkinton
- Lieutenant Job Lane School, Bedford
- Lincoln School, Lincoln
- Heath Elementary, Chestnut Hill
- L.D. Batchelder Elementary, North Reading
- John D. Runkle Elementary, Brookline
- Dale Street School, Medfield
- John A. Crisafulli Elementary, Westford
- Floral Street School, Shrewsbury
- Pierce Elementary, Brookline
- Schofield Elementary, Wellesley
- Old Hammondtown Elementary, Mattapoisett
- Johnson Elementary, Natick
- Abbot Elementary, Westford
- Orleans Elementary, Orleans
- South Elementary, Andover
- E. Ethel Little School, North Reading
- Glover Elementary, Milton
- Ivan G. Smith Elementary, Danvers
- Deerfield School, Westwood
- Horace Mann Elementary, Newton
- Willard Elementary, Concord
- Winthrop Elementary, Melrose
- Day Elementary, Westford
- Tisbury Elementary, Tisbury
- Plymouth River Elementary, Hingham
- Blanchard Memorial School, Boxborough
- Fiske Elementary, Lexington
- Manomet Elementary, Plymouth
- Thoreau Elementary, Concord
- J. Turner Hood School, North Reading
- Summer Street Elementary, Lynnfield
- Franklin Elementary, Newton
- Mildred Aitken School, Seekonk
- C.C. Burr Elementary, Auburndale
- William Mitchell Elementary, Needham
- Brackett Elementary, Arlington
- Acushnet Elementary, Acushnet
- Lincoln Elementary, Winchester
- Peter Noyes Elementary, Sudbury
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