Best Public Schools in Roslindale, MA

Roslindale, Massachusetts has four elementary schools — Haley Pilot School, Bates Elementary School, Mozart Elementary School, and Conley Elementary School — all serving grades PK–6, all part of the Boston district, and together enrolling 944 students. School size varies a lot, from Haley's 360 students down to Conley's 148. The Boston district as a whole ranks near the bottom statewide (299 of 351 districts, 1 star), but the four Roslindale schools perform very differently from one another, so the district rating alone does not describe what a family would find here.

Bates Elementary School and Mozart Elementary School are the clear standouts. Bates has the strongest math results in the group (59.72%, with ELA at 51.05%) and the highest rank, 269 of 899 schools — 70th percentile, 4 stars — after climbing from 2 stars the year before; its math score rose 18.46 points. Mozart is the most balanced and steady performer, earning 3 stars three years in a row, with ELA at 51.47% and the group's best science score at 53.33% — the only Roslindale school above the state science average of 40.98%. Both schools exceed the state average in ELA and math.

Haley Pilot School improved in all three subjects but remains below state averages, at 35.06% ELA, 36.21% math, and 30.56% science. Conley Elementary School has the lowest results — 26.67% ELA, 31.17% math, and 5.56% science, with 5th-grade math at 0.00% — despite the highest per-student spending and the smallest classes. Science is the shared weak spot: Roslindale's weighted science score is 32.45, below the state. Free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable, and small grade-level cohorts make some results volatile.