Summary:
Wales, Massachusetts is served by a single public school, Wales Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 93 students, and it makes up the entire Wales district. Because the district contains only this one school, school-level and district-level MCAS scores are identical, so any change at the school is also a change for the district. Free/reduced lunch data is not available in this data set, so economic context cannot be reviewed.
Wales Elementary posted its best recent year in 2025–2026, ranking 573 of 899 schools, at the 36th percentile with 2 stars — up from 701 of 906 (23rd percentile, 1 star) in 2024–2025 and better than 654 of 916 in 2023–2024. Science was the standout subject: 41.67% proficient versus the state's 40.98%, a large jump from 17.65% the prior year. Third grade ELA was also above the state average, at 50% versus 42.79%. ELA is the clear weakness overall, at 27.12% proficient versus the state's 40.03%, with 5th grade ELA at 25% and 6th grade ELA at just 10.53% — a 29.73 percentage point gap. Math, at 35.59% versus 41.11%, sits closer to the state average, though grades 3 and 5 were weaker.
With just 93 students in the whole school, each grade-level group is very small, so a handful of students can move a proficiency rate by many points and year-to-year swings should be read as cohort signals rather than trends. The student-teacher ratio is a low 8.6 students per teacher, and per-student spending is $17,710, though that figure covers 2020–2021 only and predates the latest test results. Grade 4 scores are not broken out in this data, which limits the full picture.
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