Summary:
Brighton, Massachusetts has seven schools — four elementary and three high schools — serving 2,351 students, with no standalone middle schools even though middle grades are taught inside other buildings: Brighton High School and Boston Green Academy Horace Mann Charter School both serve grades 7–12, Lyon Elementary School covers K–8, and Baldwin Early Learning Pilot Academy serves only PK–1 and has no test data. Most schools belong to the Boston district, ranked 299 of 351 statewide (15th percentile, 1 star), while Boston Green Academy is its own charter district, ranked 343 of 351 (2nd percentile, 0 stars).
Winship Elementary School is the clear standout and the only Brighton school above the Boston district in all three all-grade subjects — ELA 54.71, Math 48.52, and Science 47.73, versus district 29.41, 29.12, and 24.94 and state 40.03, 41.11, and 40.98 — with a stable high rank of 282 of 899 (69th percentile, 3 stars). Brighton High, the largest school at 667 students, has the area's lowest graduation rate (61.8%) and highest dropout rate (27.2%), compared with district rates of 81.3% and 8.8%, plus 0% proficient in 10th-grade Science. Lyon High School has the best graduation (89.5%) and dropout (5.3%) profile but very low 10th-grade test results. Boston Green Academy graduates more students than Brighton High but posts very weak math and science, including 7th-grade Math at 1.39%.
Resources do not track neatly with results. Winship has the second-lowest per-student spending ($27,301) and the highest student-teacher ratio (13.8), while Lyon Elementary has the highest spending ($41,336) and a 6.7 ratio yet weak proficiency and a declining rank (500 of 916 in 2023–2024 to 742 of 899 in 2025–2026). Edison Elementary School, the largest elementary with 502 students, is low and stable. Science is the weakest subject almost everywhere. Free/reduced lunch data is blank for all schools, and spending figures are from 2020–2021.
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