Summary:
Lynn, Massachusetts is a city north of Boston whose public school system includes 28 schools serving students from early childhood through high school, with a total enrollment of about 18,001. The mix is 19 elementary schools, 3 middle schools, 5 high schools, and one charter school — KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School, which serves grades K–12. Enrollment is concentrated: five schools, Lynn English High, Classical High, KIPP, Lynn Vocational Technical Institute and Thurgood Marshall Mid, hold roughly 47% of the city's students.
Aborn is the clear standout and the only Lynn school of any level rated 3 stars, with ELA proficiency of 48.54%, math 37.86% and science 42.42% — above the state in ELA and science, and spending near the district median. Behind it are Lynn Woods and Capt William G Shoemaker, which posts the highest math figure of any district elementary (30.52%). At the secondary level, KIPP leads on test scores in grades 8 and 10 (10th-grade ELA 65.55%, math 52.14%), though its all-grades results trail the state. Frederick Douglass Collegiate Academy is the best-ranked district high school (206 of 353). Lynn Voc Tech has the best completion numbers — 99.3% graduation and 0.0% dropout — but the lowest MCAS proficiency of the ranked district high schools.
Citywide, proficiency runs at roughly 40% of the state rate in ELA, 34% in math and 37% in science, and Lynn ranks 332 of 351 districts. Nine of 17 ranked elementaries sit at or below the 10th state percentile, and all three middle schools fall in the bottom 16%. The lowest-ranked schools include Wm P Connery (887 of 899, 0 stars), E J Harrington, Cobbet Elementary (science 3.16%) and Ingalls. Spending does not track results cleanly, and free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all 28 schools, so these comparisons are unadjusted for student demographics.
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