Summary:
The city of Watertown, Massachusetts is served by five schools — three elementary schools (Hosmer, James Russell Lowell, and Cunniff), one middle school, and one high school — enrolling 2,844 students in total. The Watertown district ranks 110 out of 351 Massachusetts districts, at the 69th percentile with 3 stars, placing it above the state average overall.
Watertown Middle is the clearest improvement story, rising from 3 stars to 4 stars and reaching the 74th percentile, the highest in this list; its civics score of 55.26% far exceeds the state's 39.77%, and it beats district and state averages in ELA, science, and civics. James Russell Lowell is a steady 4-star elementary with the top science score at 64.71%, against a district average of 55.87% and a state average of 40.98%, though its ELA fell from 58.2% to 47.88%. Hosmer, the largest elementary at 758 students, earned 4 stars and posted the strongest elementary math at 57.19%, a gain of 6.62 points, with ELA at 50.72%.
Watertown High is rated 3 stars at the 62nd percentile, above district and state in ELA, math, and physics, but its grade-10 science is below the state and its biology End-of-Course result is just 6.67% versus 37.68% statewide — the largest subject gap here. Cunniff has the lowest student-teacher ratio, 8.0, and the highest per-student spending, $24,988, yet the weakest elementary ELA at 42.45%. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for every school, so socioeconomic comparisons are not possible.
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