Brewster

Brewster has two listed schools serving 124 students: Brewster Elementary serves prekindergarten through grade 5, and Brewster High serves grades 6–12. The clearest concern is at High, where chronic absenteeism is 40%, compared with 4% at Elementary, 21% across the Brewster district, and 18% statewide. High’s graduation rate is 70%, 20 points below the state rate, while its dropout rate is 24%, 22 points above the state rate. High’s attendance and completion figures are the most important issues for families to ask about.

Elementary stands out for higher reported proficiency in both subjects, while High is lower and farther from the state results. In 2025–26, Elementary scored 41% in ELA and 41% in math, compared with High’s 20% and 24%—gaps of 21 and 17 points. Elementary was 5 points below the state in ELA and essentially level in math; High was 26 points below the state in ELA and 17 points below in math. Elementary’s grade-level results show a notable split: third grade was above state results in ELA and math by 8 and 7 points, while fourth grade was below by 23 and 17 points.

Elementary’s results improved from the prior year: proficiency rose by 10 points in both ELA and math, narrowing its gap with the state by 8 points in ELA and 7 in math. SchoolDigger’s listed Elementary percentile rose from 8 in 2021–22 to 37 in 2025–26; High’s ranking varied, moving from 21 in 2016–17 to 73 in 2021–22 and 4 in 2022–23. The schools have similar student-teacher ratios, 8.9 at Elementary and 8.7 at High; free/reduced-lunch rates are 28% and 21%, respectively. These are observations about schools serving different grade spans, and the rankings are not a continuous test-score trend.