Elementary Schools in Somerville

The Somerville school district in Massachusetts is home to 8 elementary schools serving students from pre-K through 5th grade. While the district as a whole ranks 224 out of 348 districts in the state, there is significant variation in performance among the individual schools. Benjamin G Brown and John F Kennedy stand out as the top-performing elementary schools in the district, consistently ranking in the top 20% of Massachusetts schools based on proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science.

In contrast, schools like E Somerville Community, Arthur D Healey, and Winter Hill Community struggle to meet state standards, with significantly lower proficiency rates across the core subjects. The performance gap between the top and bottom schools in the Somerville district suggests opportunities to learn from the practices and strategies of the high-performing schools to help improve outcomes at the lower-performing ones.

Interestingly, factors like student-teacher ratio and per-student spending do not appear to be strong predictors of school performance in Somerville. The school with the lowest ratio, Winter Hill Community, is among the lowest-performing, while the school with the highest ratio, Benjamin G Brown, is the top performer. Similarly, the school with the highest per-student spending, Capuano Early Childhood Center, is not among the top performers, while the school with the lowest spending per student, Benjamin G Brown, is the district's top-performing elementary school.