Pelham

Pelham has just one public school — Pelham Elementary, a K–6 building of 128 students on Amherst Road that also constitutes the entire Pelham school district. Because there is only one school, there are no cross-school comparisons to make; the useful benchmark is the state of Massachusetts. Pelham Elementary ranks 189th of 899 elementary schools statewide — the 79th percentile — with a 4-star rating, and its district rank of 70 of 351 (80th percentile) tells the same story.

In 2025–2026 the school beat the state in every reported subject and grade, with no exceptions. ELA proficiency was 55.13% versus the state's 40.03%, and Math was 56.76% versus 41.11%. Science was the headline: fifth-grade proficiency of 77.27% — about 1.9 times the state rate of 40.98% — and a 24.33-point jump from the prior year. Third grade was the strongest cohort, posting the largest margins over state in both ELA (75.00%, +32.21) and Math (65.00%, +22.81), while fourth grade recorded the smallest ELA margin (+5.43) and a narrower Math margin (+9.18). One important caution: with roughly 18 students per grade, a single student crossing the proficiency line moves a grade-level rate by about 4–6 points, so small gaps between grades should not be over-read.

The school rebounded in 2025–2026 after a dip to the 66th percentile and 3 stars the year before, gaining 117 places in rank — though even in the "down" year all three subjects still exceeded the state. Context signals describe a small, well-resourced district: a student–teacher ratio of 10.6 (about 12 teachers) and per-student spending of $21,032 (2020–2021), a figure that predates the assessment data by several years. Free/reduced-lunch status is unreported, so the economic context behind these results is unknown, and because the school ends at grade 6, there is no data on how students fare afterward.