Summary:
Halifax, Massachusetts is served by a single public school: Halifax Elementary, an elementary school at 464 Plymouth Street serving grades K–6 with 531 students. The Halifax district has no middle, high, or alternative schools in this data set, so families here have one school to consider at the elementary level. Because Halifax has only one school, the district's MCAS scores and performance context are identical to the school's, and no test scores are suppressed in this file.
Halifax Elementary is a strong performer relative to the state. It ranks 200 of 899 Massachusetts schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 78th percentile with 4 stars, and the district ranks 74 of 351, or the 79th percentile with 4 stars. In 2025–2026, the school exceeded state averages in all three all-grade MCAS subjects: ELA at 60.71% versus the state's 40.03%, mathematics at 53.31% versus 41.11%, and science at 58.97% versus 40.98%. ELA shows the largest margin, about 20.68 percentage points above state, while mathematics shows the narrowest relative advantage at roughly 12.20 percentage points.
Grade-level results show 5th grade as the standout cohort, with 65.38% in ELA and 63.29% in mathematics, both far above state averages, and science — assessed in grade 5 — at 58.97%. Sixth grade has the lowest school-level ELA and mathematics results by grade, at 55.56% and 50.72%, but both still exceed state. The smallest margin above state is 3rd-grade mathematics, at about 4.29 percentage points. The school's ranking has improved over three reported years, from 241 of 916 in 2023–2024 to 200 of 899 in 2025–2026, though ELA dipped slightly year-over-year while science and mathematics rose. Contextual data is limited: the student-teacher ratio is 13.5 for 2024–2025 and per-student spending is $12,640 for 2020–2021, while the free/reduced-lunch figure for 2024–2025 is unavailable and should be treated as unknown rather than zero.
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