Summary:
North Andover is home to five elementary schools — four serving grades 1–5 and one, Anne Bradstreet Early Childhood Center, serving only PK–K — with 1,854 students combined, in a district ranked 126 of 351 statewide (64th percentile, 3 stars). The four graded schools are Annie L Sargent School, Franklin, Thomson, and Atkinson, enrolling 1,392 students.
Franklin is the strongest overall: top math proficiency at 61.83%, 10.24 points above the North Andover district and 20.72 above the state, with grade 3 math at 68.29% — the highest single grade-level result in the data — and a rank of 264 of 899 (71st percentile, 4 stars). Annie L Sargent School leads in English language arts (48.47%) and science (56.14%), the latter 15.16 points above the state. Thomson has the best grade 5 math score (60.00%), but all three all-grades subjects declined year over year and its rank slipped to 358 of 899. Atkinson made the largest gains (ELA +10.60, math +12.61, science +6.86 points) yet remains lowest overall, below district and state in every subject.
For parents, a few patterns matter. Spending and class size do not track outcomes simply: Annie L Sargent School has the lowest per-student spending among graded schools ($14,672) yet top ELA and science, while Atkinson has the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.5) but the lowest results. Grade-level variation is large — Atkinson's grade 3 ELA is 53.33% versus 21.54% in grade 5 — though these are different cohorts, not the same students tracked over time. Anne Bradstreet Early Childhood Center has no MCAS or rank data, which is expected for a PK–K school. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all five schools, so economic disadvantage cannot be factored in.
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