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Best Public Schools in Newbury, MA


At a glance
1
School
424
Students
Top rankedNewbury Elementary161st of 899 Massachusetts elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Newbury Elementary up 41 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Newbury, Massachusetts has just one school in this data set: Newbury Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 424 students, and it is part of the Triton district. Families in Newbury have a single public school option at the elementary level, so the choice is really about how that one school performs. It holds a 4-star rating in each of the last three school years, higher than the district's 3 stars. Triton is ranked 111 of 351 districts in Massachusetts, at the 68th percentile, while Newbury Elementary's latest school rank percentile is 82.

Newbury Elementary outperformed both its district and the state in ELA, mathematics, and science at the all-grade level in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025. Science is the standout: 71.15% proficient in 2025–2026, which is 11.01 points above the district's all-grade figure and 30.17 points above the state. Sixth grade is especially strong, with 74.47% proficient in mathematics and 72.34% in ELA, both roughly 32 points above the state. Third, fourth, and fifth grade ELA and math also came in above district and state averages, with one exception: fifth grade mathematics, at 44.23%, was the only reported result below the district's 52.67%, by 8.44 points, though it remained 4.73 points above the state's 39.50%.

Year over year, mathematics rose by 3.10 points and science by 5.84 points, while ELA slipped by 4.01 points, still finishing well above district and state. The school's percentile improved from 78 in 2024–2025 to 82 in 2025–2026, but remains below its 2023–2024 mark of 86. For context, the student-teacher ratio was 10.7 in 2024–2025 and per-student spending was $22,572 in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported, and no state comparisons for spending or the student-teacher ratio are provided in this data set.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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