Best Public Schools in Leverett, MA

Leverett, Massachusetts is served by a single public school system: Leverett Elementary is the only school in the Leverett district, a PK–6 building with 137 students, in a district that ranks 141st of 351 Massachusetts districts. Because the Leverett district contains just one school, its district results and school results are identical — everything below describes the same building.

Leverett Elementary's clearest strength is English language arts. All-grade ELA proficiency was 59.42% in 2025–26 and 60.53% in 2024–25 — about 19 points above the state in both years, a stable two-year pattern rather than a one-off. Math is above the state as well (+10.32 and +14.52 points), though it slipped roughly four points year over year and trails the school's own ELA results. Grade-level results swing widely: 6th grade reached 83.33% in math and 77.78% in ELA, and 4th grade hit 70% in both, while 3rd-grade math (23.08%) and 5th-grade math (21.05%) and ELA (27.78%) fell below state averages. The school is also unusually well resourced for its size, with a student-teacher ratio of 8.7 and per-student spending of $24,524 (2020–21).

Two cautions matter when reading these numbers. First, science moved from 83.33% (2024–25) to 31.58% (2025–26), but since only 5th graders take science, those figures describe two different groups of students, not the same students declining. Second, the grade-level percentages imply cohorts of roughly a dozen to two dozen students, so one or two students can shift a grade's results by 5–10 points. Statewide rank moved from the 43rd to the 75th to the 63rd percentile even though ELA barely changed, showing that rankings also reflect other schools' results. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so no conclusions about economic disadvantage are possible; test data cover only two school years, and the spending figure is from 2020–21.