Summary:
Rockland, Massachusetts has two elementary schools in the Rockland district: Phelps Elementary School, which serves grades 1–4 with 639 students, and R Stewart Esten Early Childhood Center, a smaller PK–K school with 242 students. The district as a whole ranks 217 of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 38th percentile with 2 stars, so both schools sit within a lower-middle-ranked district.
Phelps Elementary School is the only school here with current MCAS results, and it generally beats the district while having a mixed record against the state. In 2025–2026, all-grades math was 41.45% — above both the district (35.4%) and the state (41.11%) — while all-grades ELA was 38.69%, above the district (33.05%) but below the state (40.03%). Its standout result is Grade 4 math at 48.7%, roughly 5.5 points above the state. Grade 3 is weaker: math was 34% and ELA 38%, both below state levels. Phelps's rank has also slipped, from the 54th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 46th percentile and 2 stars in 2025–2026, with math and ELA both declining from the prior year.
R Stewart Esten Early Childhood Center has no test scores in this data, which is expected because state testing typically starts in later grades. Its available rank history is older, ending in 2022–2023, when it reached the 60th percentile with 3 stars — up from the 43rd percentile and 2 stars in 2020–2021 — but that is not comparable to Phelps's current grade 1–4 results. Esten has the lower student-teacher ratio (11.6 vs. 13.5) and slightly lower per-student spending in the 2020–2021 data ($18,622 vs. $19,902). Free/reduced-lunch percentages are unavailable for both schools, so economic context cannot be compared.
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