Summary:
Whately, Massachusetts has one school in this data set—Whately Elementary, a PK–6 elementary school with 133 students in the Whately district—and no middle, high, or alternative schools are listed for the area.
For parents, the clearest strength is science: Whately Elementary had 64.71% proficient in science in 2025–2026 versus 40.98% statewide, a +23.73 percentage-point advantage, and fifth-grade science was also 64.71% versus 43.07% statewide. Fifth-grade mathematics was strong at 58.82% versus 39.50% statewide, and sixth-grade English language arts was 55.56% versus 40.26% statewide. The school also has a favorable 8.2 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025, suggesting small classes, and per-student spending was $22,207 in 2020–2021. Its rank history shows 3 stars in each of the last three years, at the 55th percentile in 2025–2026 and a recent peak of 67th percentile in 2024–2025. The district is listed at 185th of 351 districts, 47th percentile, with 2 stars, but that is a district comparison pool rather than a school-level comparison.
The biggest caution is that ELA and mathematics fell sharply from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. ELA dropped from 52.46% to 41.18% (down 11.28 points), and math dropped from 59.02% to 42.03% (down 16.99 points). The school remains above state averages in all three tested subjects, but its ELA advantage shrank to +1.15 points and its math advantage to +0.92 points. Grade-level results are uneven: fifth-grade math, fifth-grade science, and sixth-grade ELA are bright spots, while fourth-grade ELA (26.67%, 10.76 points below state), third-grade math (31.58%, 10.61 points below state), and sixth-grade math (33.33%, 9.26 points below state) are areas to watch. With only 133 students in PK–6, small cohorts can cause large year-to-year swings, so these patterns should be interpreted cautiously. Free/reduced lunch data is blank for 2024–2025, so socioeconomic context is unknown.
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