Elementary Schools in Florida

Florida, Massachusetts — a small Berkshire County town, and not the state of Florida — has just one elementary school, Abbott Memorial, which also makes up the entire Florida district; it enrolls 83 students in grades PK–8, so although it is catalogued as an elementary school, it also serves middle grades through eighth. Because the building and the district are one and the same, every district-level result is simply this school's result — there is no other school to compare it with or to average against.

On the MCAS Next Generation assessment, proficiency at Abbott Memorial sits below the Massachusetts average in most subjects. In 2025–2026, English language arts was 26.09% proficient against a state figure of 40.03%, mathematics 22.73% against 41.11%, and science 22.22% against 40.98%. Math is the most consistent area of concern, trailing the state by roughly 18 to 23 points in both reported years and in both the all-grades and 5th-grade views, with 5th-grade math at 7.14%. ELA slipped from 32.69% in 2024–2025 to 26.09%, and 8th-grade civics came in at 20.00% versus a state 39.16%. The one bright spot was 2024–2025 all-grades science at 44.44% against a state 41.51%. The school's percentile ranking among Massachusetts schools has fallen from 23rd to 10th.

Families should read these numbers with caution. With only 83 students, a single grade may test just a handful of children, so one student moving in or out of "proficient" can shift a percentage by several points — the science swings in particular look more like noise than signal. The school is well resourced in per-student terms, with a 5.1 student-to-teacher ratio and $20,960 spent per pupil in 2020–2021, though that spending figure predates all of the test data. Free and reduced-price lunch participation is not reported, so the student body's economic context is unknown.