Best Public Schools in Abington, MA

Abington, Massachusetts has four public schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school, with no alternative schools — forming a complete K–12 feeder pattern that serves 2,061 students, all within the Abington district, ranked 195 of 351 statewide at the 44th percentile with 2 stars. Students move from Beaver Brook Elementary (grades K–2, 491 students) to Woodsdale Elementary School (grades 3–4, 372 students), then to Abington Middle School (grades 5–8, 668 students), and on to Abington High (grades 9–12, 530 students).

Abington High is the strongest current performer and the most improved, with its rank percentile climbing from 32nd to 50th to 65th over three years and 3 stars in 2025–2026. Grade 10 Science is 12.23 points above the state (52.73% vs 40.50%), Biology End of Course is 4.54 points above (42.22% vs 37.68%), and Grade 10 ELA is 5.85 points above (51.33% vs 45.48%); only Grade 10 Mathematics trails slightly, at 42.11% against the state’s 43.73%. Abington Middle School (194 of 478, 59th percentile, 3 stars) has real bright spots — 8th grade civics at 44.44% vs the state’s 39.77%, plus 6th grade math and 7th and 8th grade ELA above state — but 5th grade math is only 26.60% against 39.50%, a 12.90-point gap. Woodsdale Elementary School is the most concerning: its percentile slid from 57th to 44th to 36th, and all-grade math fell from 44.66%, above state, to 35.40%, below it, with ELA at 33.82% vs the state’s 40.03%.

Beaver Brook Elementary reports no MCAS results because it serves only K–2, which should not be read as a weakness; it does have the highest per-student spending at $14,977. Abington High has the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.3) alongside the strongest rank, while Woodsdale Elementary School has the highest (14.9) and the weakest. These patterns are suggestive, not proof of cause and effect. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for every school, so economic context cannot be analyzed, and missing data should be treated as unknown rather than as failure.