Best Public Schools in Zip Code 62305

ZIP code 62305 has four K–5 elementary schools, enrolling 2,124 students in all, in Quincy School District 172. Across the schools, 2025–26 average proficiency was 54% in all-grades ELA, 37% in mathematics and 43% in fifth-grade science, compared with state results of 56%, 40% and 48%. The clearest difference for families comparing schools is in fifth-grade ELA, where results span 36 points—from 33% at Dr. Abby Fox Rooney Elementary School to 69% at Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School.

Lincoln-Douglas leads in all-grades ELA at 64% and mathematics at 42%; those results are 8 and 2 points above the state, respectively. Rooney has the lowest all-grades ELA score, 43%, and the lowest fifth-grade science score, 31%—13 and 17 points below the state. Colonel George Iles Elementary School, not Rooney, has the lowest all-grades mathematics result at 34%, 6 points below the state. There are useful grade-specific exceptions: Rooney leads third-grade mathematics at 54%, while Iles leads fourth-grade ELA at 64%.

ELA improved at all four schools from 2024–25 to 2025–26; Sarah Atwater Denman Elementary School gained 12 points, reaching 57% and edging above the state. Fifth-grade science also rose across the group, while average mathematics changed by less than a point. SchoolDigger percentile rankings in 2025–26 were 53 for Lincoln-Douglas, 44 for Denman, 34 for Iles and 30 for Rooney; rankings are not the same as year-to-year test-score changes. Context also varies: Lincoln-Douglas has the highest student-teacher ratio, 15, yet leads overall; Denman’s ratio is 12.8 and its reported chronic absenteeism is lowest, at 18%. In 2024–25, free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 59% at Denman and 69% at Iles. These figures describe school differences but do not by themselves explain results.