Summary:
Maynard, Massachusetts is a small district serving roughly 1,217 students across just three schools — one per level — in an uncommon PK–3, 4–8, 9–12 configuration. Green Meadow (PK–3, 456 students), Fowler School (4–8, 451 students), and Maynard High (9–12, 310 students) make up the Maynard district, which ranks 160th of 351 Massachusetts districts (54th percentile, 3 stars). That mid-pack district label, however, hides two very different stories.
Maynard High is the clear bright spot: 58th of 353 high schools (84th percentile, 4 stars), with grade-10 results far above the state in ELA (78.21% vs. 45.48), Math (62.34 vs. 43.73), and Science (57.89 vs. 40.5). At Fowler School, grade 8 is genuinely strong — Science is 9.5 points above the state and Civics 4.4 points above — while grade 5 is the district's weakest spot, with Math at 20.69% (18.8 points below the state) and Science 14.3 points below. Green Meadow posts the lowest results relative to the state: ELA 32.18 (7.9 below) and Math 29.55 (11.6 below).
The schools are also moving in opposite directions: Fowler School's percentile rank has slipped 73 → 69 → 60 while Maynard High climbed 78 → 69 → 84. Note that Green Meadow's "all grades" figures are really just grade 3, since MCAS starts there. Its class sizes are the largest (11.9 students per teacher) and its spending the lowest ($19,944). The high school graduates 91.5% with a 7.3% dropout rate. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all three schools, and spending figures are from 2020‑21, so with roughly 300–460 students per school, single-year swings should be read with caution.
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