Acushnet

The Acushnet district in Massachusetts has just two schools, covering prekindergarten through eighth grade: Acushnet Elementary School for grades PK–4 and Albert F Ford Middle School for grades 5–8, with a combined enrollment of 920 students. There is no high school in this data, so outcomes beyond eighth grade are not visible. At the district level, Acushnet ranks 121 of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 66th percentile — with 3 stars.

Acushnet Elementary School is the stronger of the two. It earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported years and ranks at the 81st percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 88th percentile in 2023–2024. In 2025–2026, 60.34% of its students were proficient in ELA and 58.99% in math, well above district levels of 42.83% and 46.53% and state levels of 40.03% and 41.11%. Albert F Ford Middle School sits closer to the middle: 3 stars each year, with its rank percentile falling from 69 in 2023–2024 to 56 and then 50 in 2025–2026, placing it at the median of its comparison group.

The middle school does have real strengths in 5th and 6th grade math, at 48.11% and 48.94% — both above state — and in 5th grade ELA at 42.45% vs state 38.15%. But 8th grade is the clearest weak point: science at 24.00% vs state 38.93%, civics at 24.24% vs state 39.77%, and ELA at 35.00% vs state 41.70%, while 6th grade ELA is also well below state at 24.73% vs 40.26%. Resources look similar at the two schools, with per-pupil spending of $15,248 and $15,013 in 2020–2021, so funding differences do not obviously explain the achievement gap. Because the schools serve different grade levels, their scores are not a direct comparison of the same students.