Plainville

Plainville has two listed public schools, both elementary: Anna Ware Jackson, which serves prekindergarten through grade 2 with 324 students, and Beatrice H Wood Elementary, which serves grades 3 through 6 with 331 students — 655 students in total. No middle, high, or alternative schools appear in this data. The Plainville district ranks 149th of 351 Massachusetts districts, at the 58th percentile with 3 stars.

Beatrice H Wood Elementary is the academic standout in this list, and math is the reason. In 2025–2026, 57.14% of students were proficient in math, versus 55.24% in the district and 41.11% statewide. Grade 6 math reached 75.95%, compared with 71.76% in the district and 42.59% statewide, and every tested math grade sits above both the district and the state. English language arts is more modest at 41.72%, slightly above the 40.03% state figure, while science is the weakest area at 33.87% against 40.98% statewide. Year over year, math rose 5.19 points, ELA fell 3.53 points, and science dropped 10.43 points. The school still climbed from 442nd of 916 schools in 2023–2024 to 353rd of 899 in 2025–2026, moving from the 52nd to the 61st percentile while holding 3 stars.

Anna Ware Jackson cannot be compared academically, because state testing begins in grade 3 and it serves PK–2. On resources, it spent $18,473 per student in 2020–2021 against $15,319 at Beatrice H Wood, and its 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio of 12.4 is slightly lower than Wood's 12.9. Those differences may reflect early-childhood staffing and programming rather than quality. Free or reduced lunch is not reported for either school, spending figures are several years old, and the two metrics come from different years.