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Best Public Schools in Wellesley, MA

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At a glance

Schools

3,899

Students

5-star schools

Top rankedJohn D Hardy2^nd of 899 Massachusetts elementary schools

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Biggest riser

Hunnewell up 25 spots statewide this year

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Smallest classes

Wellesley Middle 8.9 students per teacher

SchoolDigger ratings

5★

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Summary:

Wellesley, Massachusetts is served by 8 public schools in the Wellesley district — 6 elementary schools, 1 middle school, and 1 high school — and no alternative schools appear in this data set. The district ranks 5th of 351 Massachusetts districts, at the 99th percentile with a 5-star rating. Total enrollment is 3,899: 1,262 at the high school, 919 at the middle school, and 1,718 across six elementary schools enrolling 278 to 294 students each. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for every school, so it cannot be analyzed here.

Every school earned 5 stars in 2025-2026, and even the lowest-ranked Wellesley school, Sprague Elementary School at 42nd of 899, sits in the 95th percentile. John D Hardy is the elementary standout, ranked 2nd of 899 (100th percentile) with balanced scores of 78.57 ELA, 85.16 Math, and 86.67 Science. Katharine Lee Bates (11th of 899) leads in ELA at 83.77, while Joseph E Fiske (13th of 899) posted the highest elementary ELA average, 84.30, including a 92.11 in 4th grade — the highest single reported score in the data. Wellesley Middle improved to 7th of 478 middle schools and has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 8.9:1, while Wellesley Senior High ranks 17th of 353 with a 96.7% graduation rate and 0.6% dropout rate.

Science is the clearest internal weak spot: Sprague's 56.82 trails its own ELA (77.52) and math (75.97), and several elementary science scores fell from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026 — Sprague 78.43 to 56.82, Bates 78.85 to 66.67, Schofield 79.63 to 67.80 — while Hardy stayed flat and Hunnewell rose to 85.42. Grade-level swings are large within schools; Fiske's 4th-grade ELA of 92.11 versus 79.17 in 3rd grade may reflect small cohorts. Spending doesn't track outcomes simply: Schofield spends the least ($20,054) yet performs near district averages, while Sprague spends the most ($24,057) with the lowest science score. Every reported Wellesley score nonetheless exceeds the state's proficiency ranges (ELA 40.03–45.48, Math 41.11–43.73, Science 40.50–40.98).

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts (2026)								MCAS Next Generation Mathematics (2026)								MCAS Next Generation Science (2026)				MCAS Next Generation Physics (2026)	MCAS Next Generation Civics (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Directly certified (2024-25)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 3rd Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 4th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 5th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 6th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 7th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 8th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts All Grades	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 3rd Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 4th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 5th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 6th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 7th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 8th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics All Grades	MCAS Next Generation Science 5th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Science 8th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Science 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Science All Grades	MCAS Next Generation Physics End of Course	MCAS Next Generation Civics 8th Grade	Total
Sprague Elementary School	Public	K-5	401 School Street	Wellesley	02482	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	Yes	(781) 263-1965	289	25	11.7	11.1%	160 (55.4%)	11 (3.8%)	32 (11.1%)	58 (20.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	28 (9.7%)	92.8	42^nd of 899 public elementary schools	95.3%		91.6	53^rd of 906 public elementary schools	94.2%	11	85.0	72.7	75.6					77.5	73.2	86.1	68.9					76.0	56.8			56.8			$27,482
Hunnewell	Public	K-5	28 Cameron Street	Wellesley	02482	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	No	(781) 446-6275	294	28	10.5	7.5%	207 (70.4%)	7 (2.4%)	20 (6.8%)	32 (10.9%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	28 (9.5%)	94	31^st of 899 public elementary schools	96.6%		91.2	56^th of 906 public elementary schools	93.8%	25	74.4	68.4	72.9					71.5	82.1	63.8	77.1					73.1	85.4			85.4			$29,139
John D Hardy	Public	K-5	293 Weston Rd	Wellesley	02482	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	Yes	(781) 446-6270	280	27	10.5	7.1%	150 (53.6%)	2 (0.7%)	24 (8.6%)	88 (31.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	16 (5.7%)	98	2^nd of 899 public elementary schools	99.8%		97.3	1^st of 906 public elementary schools	99.9%	1	78.4	77.6	80.0					78.6	86.3	84.8	84.4					85.2	86.7			86.7			$27,923
Joseph E Fiske	Public	K-5	45 Hastings Street	Wellesley	02481	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	Yes	(781) 446-6265	278	24	11.3	11.5%	152 (54.7%)	14 (5.0%)	23 (8.3%)	77 (27.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	12 (4.3%)	96.1	13^th of 899 public elementary schools	98.6%		96.3	11^th of 906 public elementary schools	98.8%	2	79.2	92.1	82.9					84.3	68.8	84.2	74.3					75.2	80.0			80.0			$24,897
Katharine Lee Bates	Public	K-5	116 Elmwood Rd	Wellesley	02481	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	No	(781) 446-6260	286	22	12.9	1.7%	217 (75.9%)	7 (2.4%)	21 (7.3%)	18 (6.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	23 (8.0%)	96.2	11^th of 899 public elementary schools	98.8%		94.9	24^th of 906 public elementary schools	97.4%	13	87.5	83.1	79.5					83.8	82.1	81.4	69.2					78.6	66.7			66.7			$25,910
Wellesley Middle	Public	6-8	50 Kingsbury Street	Wellesley	02481	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	No	(781) 446-6235	919	102	8.9	7.7%	559 (60.8%)	42 (4.6%)	64 (7.0%)	180 (19.6%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	73 (7.9%)	97.2	7^th of 478 public middle schools	98.5%		96.2	12^th of 484 public middle schools	97.5%	5				72.5	72.1	81.4		75.4				82.9	78.5	81.5		81.0		78.6		78.6		77.6	$29,465
Wellesley Senior High	Public	9-12	50 Rice Street	Wellesley	02481	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	Yes	(781) 446-6290	1,262	117	10.7	8.6%	795 (63.0%)	59 (4.7%)	80 (6.3%)	235 (18.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	91 (7.2%)	95.3	17^th of 353 public high schools	95.2%		94.6	19^th of 349 public high schools	94.6%	2							77.5								84.3				81.4		74.0		$26,941
Schofield	Public	K-5	27 Cedar Street	Wellesley	02481	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	No	(781) 446-6280	291	27	10.9	10.0%	190 (65.3%)	8 (2.7%)	29 (10.0%)	45 (15.5%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.3%)	18 (6.2%)	93.6	37^th of 899 public elementary schools	95.9%		90.6	61^st of 906 public elementary schools	93.3%	24	68.1	76.4	74.6					73.3	74.5	75.9	71.2					73.8	67.8			67.8			$26,407

Cities Near Wellesley

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Needham	1.47 mi	8	14^th
Waban	1.83 mi	2	35^th
Auburndale	1.97 mi	2	32^nd
Weston	2.44 mi	5	5^th
West Newton	2.49 mi	2	56^th

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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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