Summary:
Elementary schools in Norton, MA consist of three schools serving pre-kindergarten through grade 5 — J C Solmonese (PK–3, 491 students), Henri A. Yelle (grades 4–5, 371 students), and L G Nourse Elementary (K–3, 272 students) — for a total listed enrollment of 1,134 students, all in the Norton district, which is ranked 216 of 351 districts, at the 38th percentile, with a 2-star rating.
L G Nourse is the academic standout, especially in English language arts. Its 2025–26 all-grades ELA proficiency of 43.33% is the only school result above the state's 40.03% and above the district's 37.20%; it also leads 3rd grade ELA (43.33% vs 37.38% at J C Solmonese) and 3rd grade math (36.67% vs 28.04%), an 8.63-point math advantage. Henri A. Yelle posts the highest all-grades math score at 37.08%, but that masks a large internal split: 4th grade math is 45.56%, above both district and state, while 5th grade math is only 29.41%, far below the state's 39.50%. J C Solmonese has the largest enrollment but the weakest math — 28.04% in 2025–26, 5.73 points below the district and 13.07 points below the state, and just 26.32% in 2024–25.
Across the district, results trail the state: district all-grades ELA is 37.20% versus the state's 40.03%, and math is 33.77% versus 41.11%. Henri A. Yelle has the highest per-student spending ($16,757) and the highest student-teacher ratio (13.5), while L G Nourse has the lowest ratio (11.0). Keep in mind that L G Nourse declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in both ELA (46.15% to 43.33%) and math (42.31% to 36.67%). Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all three schools, and spending figures come from 2020–21, so these patterns are associations rather than explanations for performance.
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