Summary:
Bedford, MA is served by two elementary schools in this dataset that together cover PK–5, with a combined enrollment of 1,041 students in a highly ranked district. Lt Eleazer Davis serves grades PK–2 with 501 students, while Lt Job Lane School serves grades 3–5 with 540 students. Both operate in the Bedford district, which ranks 25th of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 93rd percentile, with 5 stars.
Lt Job Lane School is the academic standout with data available. It earned 5 stars in each listed year and ranked 63rd of 899 schools in 2025–2026, 65th of 906 in 2024–2025, and 57th of 916 in 2023–2024 — consistently roughly the top 6–7% of Massachusetts schools. Its 2025–2026 all-grade MCAS proficiency rates are strong and balanced: 67.97% in English Language Arts, 68.24% in math, and 69.47% in science, exceeding the state by about 27–28 percentage points in every subject and also topping its district in all three subjects, with the largest district edge in science. Lt Eleazer Davis has no MCAS results here because it serves PK–2; that absence is expected and should not be read as a weakness. The two schools cannot be compared academically from this dataset, so the meaningful comparison is operational: Davis has a slightly lower student-teacher ratio of 11.2 versus 11.7 at Job Lane, and slightly lower per-student spending of $18,582 versus $18,938 in 2020–2021.
Year over year, Job Lane's results are mixed but still strong: ELA rose 1.62 points to 67.97%, math slipped 0.90 points to 68.24%, and science fell 5.67 points to 69.47% from a very high prior result — though all remain well above district and state averages, and changing cohorts mean this is not necessarily a sustained trend. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for both schools, so economic context is unknown, not zero, and equity comparisons are not possible from this file. The district rank applies equally to both schools, but only Job Lane has school-level rank history listed.
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