Summary:
Dedham is a Massachusetts district serving about 2,668 students across seven schools — five elementary schools (including one PK–K early childhood center), one middle school, and one high school, all in grades PK–12 — and it carries a 3-star district rating, ranked 148 of 351, the 58th percentile.
The elementary schools are strikingly uneven. Greenlodge (ranked 174 of 899, 81st percentile, 4 stars) and Oakdale (195 of 899, 78th percentile, 4 stars) are the two clear standouts: both are above district and state in ELA and math and above the state in science. Greenlodge posts 58.56% ELA and 65.19% math, including the highest math result in the data at 74.07% in 4th grade, while Oakdale is slightly higher in all-grade ELA at 58.67% and improved from the 67th to the 78th percentile in three years. Riverdale is a 3-star school at the 58th percentile, up from 47th, with the strongest all-grade science at 45.0% but a sharp split between very strong 3rd grade and weak 4th grade. Avery is the lowest performer — 1 star, 650 of 899, 28th percentile — and sits below district and state in every reported subject, with its rank slipping from 35th to 28th percentile.
At the secondary level, Dedham High and Dedham Middle School are both 3-star schools whose strength is math: 10th grade math is 57.58% versus the state's 43.73%, and middle school math is 50.0% versus 41.11%. Science is the relative weakness, especially at the middle school. Early Childhood Center has no MCAS scores, and the highest student/teacher ratio (11.7) and per-student spending ($25,253). Notably, spending and class size do not track with results here, and free/reduced-price lunch data is blank for all seven schools, so economic-disadvantage comparisons are not possible.
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