Summary:
Marion, Massachusetts is served by a single public school — Sippican, an elementary school covering grades PK through 6 with 369 students, in a small coastal town on Buzzards Bay; because the Marion district contains only this one school, there are no in-town school-to-school comparisons, and the data set lists no middle school, high school, or alternative school here.
Sippican's strongest results are in math and science, where it scored above the state average in both reported years. In 2024–2025, science proficiency was 54.72% versus 41.51% statewide, and math was 45.91% versus 40.74%. In 2025–2026, math was 44.16% versus 41.11% and science 44.64% versus 40.98%, so science slipped by about 10 percentage points year over year but still finished ahead of the state. English language arts is the softer spot: the school was 1 point ahead of the state in 2024–2025 (42.53% vs. 41.53%) but 0.85 points behind in 2025–2026 (39.18% vs. 40.03%). Grade-level results show a clear split — third graders were well above the state in both ELA (51.28% vs. 42.79%) and math (53.85% vs. 42.19%), while fifth and sixth grade ELA and sixth grade math fell below state averages.
Two context points matter for families. First, Sippican's relative standing has weakened even though it holds 3 stars: its rank moved from 327 of 916 (64th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 427 of 899 (53rd percentile) in 2025–2026. The Marion district is separately listed at 2 stars, 43rd percentile, 200 of 351, which likely reflects a different ranking pool or methodology. Second, some information is missing or dated: free/reduced lunch is not reported, so poverty context is unknown, and per-student spending of $18,890 comes from 2020–2021. The student-teacher ratio of 10.7 looks favorable but has no state benchmark in this data.
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