Summary:
The city of North Billerica, Massachusetts is home to a single elementary school, the Frederick J Dutile Elementary School, which serves grades K-4 with an enrollment of 296 students. The school is part of the Billerica school district, which is ranked 147 out of 348 districts in Massachusetts and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger.
The Frederick J Dutile Elementary School has consistently outperformed the Billerica district and the state of Massachusetts in MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts and Mathematics assessments for all grades, 3rd grade, and 4th grade. For the 2024-2025 school year, the school had 48.78% of students proficient or better in ELA and 54.47% proficient or better in Math, compared to the Billerica district at 44.67% and 45.25%, and the state at 41.53% and 40.74%, respectively. The school's student-teacher ratio for the 2023-2024 school year was 15.3, which is a relatively low ratio compared to the state average, and its per-student spending for the 2020-2021 school year was $18,281, higher than the state average.
The school's statewide ranking has fluctuated in recent years, going from 182 out of 928 Massachusetts elementary schools in 2022-2023 (4-star rating) to 267 out of 916 in 2023-2024 (4-star rating) and 308 out of 906 in 2024-2025 (3-star rating). This could be due to changes in the school's performance or the overall performance of other schools in the state, and it would be interesting to investigate the factors contributing to these ranking changes.
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