Summary:
Ludlow, Massachusetts has two elementary schools — Harris Brook Elementary School and East Street Elementary School — that together enroll 961 students across a combined PK–5 grade span, within a Ludlow district ranked 262 out of 351 in the state (25th percentile, 1 star).
Harris Brook is the larger school, with 593 students in grades 2–5 and a student-teacher ratio of 11.1, and it is the only one of the two with MCAS results or a school rank. Its English Language Arts proficiency is 22.09%, slightly above the district's 21.21%, but Mathematics (27.36% vs. 29.83%) and Science (20.28% vs. 28.57%) fall below district averages. Against the state, all subjects trail far behind — ELA by 17.94 points, Mathematics by 13.75 points, and Science by 20.70 points. Grade 5 is the weakest tested grade in every subject (14.48% in ELA, 17.12% in Mathematics, 20.28% in Science), while grade 4 Mathematics at 36.11% is the relative bright spot. Scores also declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 — down 2.41 points in ELA, 5.53 in Mathematics, and 7.85 in Science — with the school's percentile slipping from 27 to 19, still 1 star.
East Street serves the youngest learners in PK–1, with 368 students, a slightly higher ratio of 11.8, and per-student spending of $18,352 for 2020–2021. Because it has no MCAS results or rank history, and Harris Brook has no spending figure, the two can only be compared on enrollment, grade span, and class size — and those differences are small. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for both schools, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed. Parents should note that the district's elementary test averages appear to be driven almost entirely by Harris Brook, since East Street has no tested grades 3–5 in this data, making the district comparison less of an independent benchmark.
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