Best Public Schools in Chesterfield, MA

Chesterfield, Massachusetts has one public school, New Hingham Regional Elementary, a PK–6 elementary school with 126 students in the Chesterfield-Goshen district. The area summary lists 1 total school: 1 elementary, 0 middle, 0 high, and 0 alternative. Because there is only one school, the district’s reported results are identical to the school’s results, making New Hingham Regional Elementary both the school and district picture for local families.

In 2024-2025, the school hit a high point: all-grade math was 50.75% proficient versus the state’s 40.74%, science was 50% versus 41.51%, and ELA was 40.30% versus 41.53%. Its rank was 392 of 906, at the 57th percentile with 3 stars. In 2025-2026, results declined across all-grade subjects: ELA 32.35% vs. 40.03%, math 41.18% vs. 41.11%, and science 35.71% vs. 40.98%. Math is essentially at the state average, while ELA and science are below. The strongest grade-level result is 6th grade math at 68.42% proficient, 25.83 points above the state’s 42.59%. Grade 5 math is also above state at 42.86% vs. 39.50%. The weakest results are in early grades: 3rd grade ELA 15.38% vs. 42.79%, 3rd grade math 23.08% vs. 42.19%, and 4th grade math 27.27% vs. 43.20%. Science is effectively a 5th-grade metric here, since all-grade science equals 5th-grade science at 35.71%.

Context matters: with only 126 students, grade-level cohorts are small, so a few students can swing percentages sharply and year-to-year changes should be read cautiously. The school reports a student-teacher ratio of 8.7 in 2024-2025, roughly 14.5 teacher-equivalents, and spending of $23,721 per student in 2020-2021, roughly $2.99 million annually if applied to current enrollment. The free/reduced-lunch percentage is unavailable, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this data. The district ranks 240 of 351 (32nd percentile, 2 stars), while the school’s 2025-2026 rank is 521 of 899 (42nd percentile, 2 stars). The key question for parents is whether 2024-2025 was an outlier or whether 2025-2026 marks a real downward shift.