Summary:
The Berlin-Boylston district in central Massachusetts serves two elementary schools, both covering grades PK–5: Boylston Elementary School with 347 students and Berlin Memorial School with 242 students. The district ranks 59th of 351 in the state, placing it in the 83rd percentile with a 4-star rating.
Boylston Elementary School is the stronger performer right now. In 2025–26 all-grade MCAS Next Generation testing, it led Berlin in ELA (60.38% vs. 53.98%), math (52.20% vs. 46.49%), and science (70.00% vs. 53.66%), and it beat the state in all three subjects. Its 3rd graders produced the highest single result in the data — 77.78% in ELA — along with a strong 70.37% in math. Boylston has kept a 4-star rating and a 76th percentile rank (216th of 899), slipping only slightly from the 79th percentile two years earlier.
Berlin Memorial School's 4th graders stand out, with 67.74% in ELA and 58.06% in math — both above district and state. But its overall trajectory is concerning: it fell from 114th to 295th statewide (88th to 67th percentile), and its star rating dropped from 4 to 3. All-grade science plunged 33.01 points, from 86.67% to 53.66%, while math fell 6.91 points. Fifth grade math is a shared weakness — Berlin's 26.83% sits below district and state, and Boylston's 37.50% is just under the state's 39.50%. Notably, Berlin spends more per student ($20,049 vs. $16,417) and has a smaller student-teacher ratio (11.9 vs. 12.8) yet trails in current results, though that spending data is from 2020–21 and many factors affect outcomes. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for either school.
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