Summary:
There are four elementary schools in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, serving a combined 2,613 students: McKay Elementary School, Reingold Elementary, and Crocker Elementary, each serving grades 1–5 and reporting MCAS Next Generation results, plus South Street Early Learning Center, which serves PK–K and has no current MCAS proficiency data. All four sit within the Fitchburg district, which ranks 325th of 351 districts statewide, in the 7th percentile with 0 stars.
Among the tested schools, Crocker Elementary is the clear standout. It is above the district in ELA, math, and science in both years, with 2025–2026 rates of 29.88% in ELA, 37.97% in math, and 30.71% in science, and its 2024–2025 math score of 46.60% topped the state's 40.74%. In 2025–2026 math, Crocker outpaced McKay by 15.94 points and Reingold by 23.56 points. McKay is the largest school at 754 students and ranked in the 13th percentile with 1 star; its math and science rose to 22.03% and 21.99%, but ELA stayed low at 17.33%, with 4th- and 5th-grade ELA at 11.57% and 14.08%. Reingold has the weakest profile: 9th percentile, 0 stars, with math at 14.41% and 5th-grade math at just 9.26% — the lowest grade-level result in this data. Its rank slipped from the 25th percentile two years earlier.
Spending and staffing do not simply track outcomes. Crocker had the second-highest per-student spending at $16,006, while Reingold had the lowest at $15,412, but that spending data is from 2020–2021 and should not be read as current or causal. Student-teacher ratios are close, ranging from 11.2 at McKay to 12.5 at Reingold. South Street has the highest spending at $17,364 and serves PK–K, so it cannot fairly be compared on MCAS proficiency. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all four schools, so economic context is unavailable.
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