Summary:
Sharon, Massachusetts is served by five public schools — three elementary schools (K–5), one middle school (6–8), and one high school (9–12) — enrolling about 3,412 students in a district that ranks 18th of 351 in the state, at the 95th percentile with 5 stars. Every school holds 5 stars except Cottage Street, which currently has 4. One caution for parents: free and reduced-price lunch percentages are blank or suppressed for all five schools, so socioeconomic context is unknown, and per-student spending figures are from 2020-2021 rather than the current year.
Among the elementaries, Heights Elementary is the standout: 38th of 899 elementary schools (96th percentile), the highest current math result at 77.86 for all grades, and the top single score in the dataset, 4th Grade Math 81.82 — all despite having the highest student-to-teacher ratio (16.6) and the lowest per-student spending ($17,873). East Elementary is improving each year, moving from 74th to 64th to 51st, with strong 3rd Grade ELA (79.17) and 4th Grade Math (79.22). Cottage Street is the only school to fall from 5 stars to 4, with the lowest elementary ELA (62.34) and math (67.97) — but it also posts the strongest elementary science result at 75.32, and even its lowest score, 4th Grade ELA at 50.0, is above the state's 37.43.
Sharon Middle has the smallest classes (10.5 students per teacher) and the highest 2020-2021 spending ($18,262), and remains a 5-star, 91st-percentile school even though its all-grades math (69.65) and science (67.86) sit slightly below district averages. Sharon High pairs strong academics with a 96.3% graduation rate and a 1.1% dropout rate. Spending is fairly uniform across the Sharon district, varying by only $389 per student. Overall, school percentiles span a narrow 89th to 96th, and every reported test score exceeds the state benchmark, generally by 22 to 37 percentage points.
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