Summary:
Beverly, Massachusetts has seven public schools — five elementary schools serving grades K–4, one middle school for grades 5–8, and one high school for grades 9–12 — enrolling 4,378 students, with the Beverly district ranked #89 of 351 Massachusetts districts (75th percentile, 4 stars).
The elementary tier is the district's strongest segment, and all five schools post 2025–26 all-grade ELA proficiency above the district's 45.38% and the state's 40.03%. Ayers/Ryal Side School is the standout for both consistency and efficiency: it has held the 84th–86th percentile for three years, leads elementary math at 67.08%, and does so with the lowest per-student spending ($14,101) and highest student-teacher ratio (14.1) in the group. Centerville Elementary pairs the highest elementary ELA score (56.59%) with the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.4) and the highest spending ($16,028). Cove Elementary is the biggest improver, climbing from the 48th to the 77th percentile and from 2 stars to 4 stars, with ELA up 10.69 points and math up 6.89 points year over year. North Beverly Elementary is still a 4-star school but is cooling, with math falling from 72.73% to 60.63% and ELA from 58.65% to 54.76%. Hannah Elementary is the smallest school (312 students) and the elementary watch-list entry, slipping from 4 stars to 3 and posting math at 50.00%, just under the district's 51.17% but above the state's 41.11%.
The middle and high schools are more mixed. Beverly Middle School, the largest school at 1,388 students, is 3 stars at the 66th percentile; its science score of 48.54% beats district and state, and 6th grade math reaches 59.38%, though 7th grade ELA sits at 34.38%. Beverly High is 3 stars at the 59th percentile, with a 92.3% graduation rate, a 4.0% dropout rate, and biology at 45.87% versus the state's 37.68%, but science fell from 49.64% to 41.63%. Free/reduced-lunch data is unreported for every school, and spending figures date to 2020–2021, so resource comparisons are descriptive only.
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