Saugus

Saugus, MA is served by four schools enrolling 2,675 students: two elementary schools (Belmonte STEAM Academy, grades 2–5, and Veterans Early Learning Center, PK–1), one middle school (Saugus Middle School, grades 6–8), and one high school (Saugus High, grades 9–12), with no alternative schools; the Saugus district overall ranks 271 of 351 districts, at the 23rd percentile with 1 star, placing it in the bottom quartile of the state in this dataset.

Among schools with current MCAS results, Belmonte STEAM Academy is the strongest tested elementary option — it is the largest school, with 814 students, and generally outperforms the district in ELA (31.15% vs 27.03%) and Math (34.72% vs 32.27%), though its Science fell from 40.43% to 31.35% year over year. Saugus Middle School shows the clearest improvement, moving from the 29th to the 38th percentile and from 1 star to 2 stars, with all-grade Science up 8.98 points. Its results vary dramatically by grade: 8th-grade Math is 53.98%, the highest MCAS value in the dataset and above the state's 41.67%, while 7th-grade Math is 17.86% and 7th-grade ELA is 19.70%.

At Saugus High, Biology End of Course is a bright spot at 51.28%, above the state's 37.68%, but 10th-grade ELA (28.21%), Math (30.32%), and Science (23.24%) all trail state levels. Its graduation rate is 85.6% versus the district's 84.1%, while its dropout rate is 9.9% versus 9.1%. Veterans Early Learning Center serves PK–1 and therefore has no MCAS results, so it cannot be compared on test scores. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for any school, and spending figures exist only for 2020–2021 and only for three schools.