Summary:
Burlington is a high-performing suburban district in Massachusetts with six public schools — four elementary schools serving K–5, one middle school for grades 6–8, and one high school for grades 9–12 — enrolling 3,510 students in total. The district ranks 80th of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 77th percentile, and all six of its schools now hold a 4-star rating for 2025–26, up from only the middle school in 2023–24.
Among the elementary schools, Fox Hill has the strongest balanced profile, with the highest elementary rank percentile at 80 and all-grade ELA 53.27, math 62.74, and science 54.41 — all above district and state. Memorial posts the highest elementary math (65.32) and science (63.33), including 3rd-grade math at 71.43, but its all-grade ELA of 46.55 falls below the district's 50.82. Pine Glen Elementary leads elementary ELA at 54.09 and made the biggest three-year rank jump, from the 58th to the 75th percentile; it also has the lowest student/teacher ratio at 9.5, though its 4th-grade math at 42.31 is the only reported score in the city below the state (43.20). Francis Wyman Elementary has strong math (60.77) but the lowest elementary percentile at 72 and weaker science at 43.90.
Marshall Simonds Middle is remarkably stable — 78th percentile in 2025–26 after 78 and 79 — and its 8th-grade Civics score of 60.84 is 21.07 points above the state. Burlington High has the strongest outcomes: a 95.0% graduation rate, a 4.6% dropout rate, and Biology End of Course at 62.91, 25.23 points above the state, though 10th-grade ELA and science each fell by about 11 points from 2024–25. Note that free/reduced-lunch data are not reported for any school, and spending figures date to 2020–21.
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