Summary:
Stoughton, Massachusetts is served by seven public schools with a combined enrollment of about 3,658 students: five elementary schools (grades K–5, one PK–5), one middle school (grades 6–8), and one high school (grades 9–12), all part of the Stoughton district. The district itself is rated 184th of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 48th percentile, or 2 stars — placing it squarely in the middle of the state.
The standout is Joseph R Dawe Junior Elementary, which jumped from the 56th to the 70th percentile (3 stars) and leads every Stoughton elementary in ELA (55.17%), math (47.7%), and science (56.25%) — the only school beating the state in all three subjects. Richard L. Wilkins Elementary School and South Elementary also hold 3 stars: Wilkins pairs strong math (51.01%) with weak science (30.56%), while South is the district's steadiest school, holding the 59th percentile with math at 50.7%. Joseph H Gibbons improved the most, from the 31st to the 50th percentile in three years, even though its science rate (30.3%) is the lowest here.
Overall, the elementary schools generally outperform the state while the secondary schools trail it. O'Donnell Middle School has the lowest ELA (28.76%) and math (33.91%) results in the data set, though its 8th grade civics (41.53%) edges the state. Stoughton High shows the sharpest decline, from the 61st to the 46th percentile, yet its 10th grade science (46.72%) beats the state's 40.5% and its 90.3% graduation rate exceeds the district's 88.6%. Science is uneven everywhere: it fell at four of five elementaries — most at Helen Hansen Elementary (−11.7 points) — while Dawe gained 14.7 points. Spending and class size do not line up with results here.
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