Deerfield

Deerfield has one public school in this data: Deerfield Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 301 students. The area has no middle, high, or alternative schools, so this summary covers elementary grades only, and because there is just one school, school and district results are identical. The data includes MCAS Next Generation proficiency for 2025–2026 and 2024–2025, school rank history from 2023–2024 through 2025–2026, a district rank, spending per student for 2020–2021, and a student-teacher ratio for 2024–2025. The free/reduced lunch figure is blank, so it is unknown rather than zero.

Deerfield Elementary's profile is mixed. Its clearest strength in 2025–2026 is Science: all-grade proficiency was 51.43% against 40.98% statewide, and 5th grade Science was 51.43% versus 43.07% — the same figure, so this is really a 5th grade signal. 4th grade Mathematics (51.28% vs. 43.20%), 3rd grade English Language Arts (48.65% vs. 42.79%), and 6th grade ELA (43.64% vs. 40.26%) also beat the state. In 2024–2025 the school was above state in all-grade ELA (46.43% vs. 41.53%) and Mathematics (49.40% vs. 40.74%). But results vary sharply by grade and subject, and both ELA and Mathematics fell year over year — ELA to 39.76% (down 6.67 points) and Mathematics to 41.57% (down 7.83 points) — while Science rose 17.53 points to 51.43%.

Weak spots include 4th grade ELA (28.21% vs. 37.43%), 5th grade Mathematics (34.29% vs. 39.50%), 3rd grade Mathematics (37.84% vs. 42.19%), 5th grade ELA (37.14% vs. 38.15%), and all-grade ELA (39.76% vs. 40.03%). Science was well below state in 2024–2025 (33.90% vs. 41.51%). The school ranked 443 of 899 (51st percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026, down from 379 of 906 (58th percentile). The Deerfield district ranked 209 of 351 (40th percentile, 2 stars). The student-teacher ratio was 8.8 and per-student spending was $21,413, though equity analysis is limited because the free/reduced lunch rate is unknown.