Summary:
Arlington has seven elementary schools — Brackett, Cyrus E Dallin, Hardy, John A Bishop, M Norcross Stratton, Peirce, and Thompson — all serving grades K–5 within the highly rated Arlington district, which ranks 17th of 351 districts statewide (95th percentile, 5 stars). Together they enroll 2,844 students, averaging 406 per school, from 318 at Peirce to 537 at Thompson. Every school scores far above the state average in ELA, math, and science in both 2025-2026 and 2024-2025; even the lowest all-grade result, Stratton's 60.40% in ELA, is about 20 points above the state's 40.03%.
John A Bishop is the most consistently elite school, ranked 35th, 38th, and 39th statewide across three years at the 96th percentile, with the group's top science scores (89.23% and 93.75%). Brackett made the biggest leap, from 111th to 44th, and Thompson rebounded from 177th to 72nd on a 9.07-point math gain. Peirce, the smallest school, stayed in the top 53 all three years, while Hardy posted ranks of 79th, 92nd, and 64th and has the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.3).
Science is the group's strongest subject (about 79% in 2025-2026), and math improved most year over year, up 1.94 points on average. ELA is tighter: only Cyrus E Dallin (71.65%) exceeded the district's 71.07%. Two schools to watch are M Norcross Stratton, which has the lowest ELA scores, and Peirce and Dallin, which declined in math and science from very high prior levels. Spending and class size do not track simply with results — Peirce spends the most ($17,743) and Thompson the least ($16,024), yet both perform well — and free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable for every school.
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