Elementary Schools in Stoughton

Five elementary schools serve the Stoughton district in Massachusetts: Joseph R Dawe Junior Elementary, Joseph H Gibbons, Richard L. Wilkins Elementary School, South Elementary, and Helen Hansen Elementary. Four serve grades K–5 and Wilkins serves PK–5, with total enrollment of 1,739 students ranging from 285 at Hansen to 403 at Dawe. The district ranks 184th of 351 Massachusetts districts, at the 48th percentile with a 2-star rating, and its schools range from the 48th to 70th percentile among 899 ranked elementary schools.

Dawe is the clear academic standout. It posts the highest all-grade scores in ELA (55.17%), science (56.25%), and a simple three-subject average of 53.04%, sits at the 70th percentile with 3 stars, and has climbed in state rank from 396 of 906 to 273 of 899. South is strongest in math (50.70%) and science (44.00%), while Wilkins has the top all-grade math score (51.01%) but weak science at 30.56%. Gibbons shines in 3rd grade (64.52% ELA, 62.90% math, the best 3rd grade math in the group) yet has the lowest science result at 30.30% and the highest student–teacher ratio at 13.6. Hansen, the smallest school, is above district and state in ELA (44.53%) but below both in math and science, ranking 48th percentile with 2 stars.

Across the group, math is a relative strength — four of five schools beat district and state averages — while science is the shared weak spot: only Dawe and South exceed both benchmarks, and Hansen and Wilkins saw the steepest science declines (−11.67 and −7.90 points). Every school's all-grade ELA is above district and state, though South's fell 8.84 points. Dawe has the lowest student–teacher ratio (11.4), while Hansen has the highest 2020–2021 per-student spending ($18,586) yet the lowest math score; because spending data is older and free/reduced lunch figures are unavailable, these patterns are descriptive only.