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Best Public Schools in Templeton, MA


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1
School
581
Students
Top rankedTempleton Elementary School533rd of 899 Massachusetts elementary schools
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Biggest riser
Templeton Elementary School up 95 spots statewide this year
Summary:

Templeton, Massachusetts, has one public school in this dataset, Templeton Elementary School, serving grades PK–4 with 581 students in the Narragansett district. Because it is the only school in the city list, parents should read this as a single-school profile rather than a comparison among local options. It is an elementary school at 17 South Rd. Templeton, MA 01468, and no middle, high, or alternative schools are included in the data.

Academically, the school’s all-grade math proficiency is 40.20%, nearly matching the state’s 41.11% and well above the district’s 27.42%. All-grade ELA is 34.17%, above the district’s 31.22% but below the state’s 40.03%. Grade 3 math is the standout: 43.30% proficient versus 42.19% statewide. Grade 4 results are weaker: ELA is 29.41% versus 37.43% statewide, and math is 37.25% versus 43.20% statewide. The school outperforms the district in all-grade ELA, all-grade math, grade 4 ELA, grade 3 math, and grade 4 math, and is essentially even with the district in grade 3 ELA.

Over three years, the school improved its state rank from 675th of 916 to 533rd of 899, moving from the 26th to the 41st percentile and from 1 star to 2 stars. All-grade math rose 7.73 percentage points year over year, and ELA rose 1.86 points. The Narragansett district ranks 280th of 351, at the 20th percentile with 1 star, so the school is stronger than its district but still below the state median. Student-teacher ratio is 14.2 (2024–2025), per-student spending is $13,571 (2020–2021), and free/reduced lunch data is not available, limiting socioeconomic context.

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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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