Sutton

Sutton, Massachusetts has four public schools — two elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving about 1,291 students from prekindergarten through grade 12, and the Sutton district ranks 143rd of 351 in the state (59th percentile, 3 stars). Free and reduced-lunch percentages are not reported for any of the four schools, so family-income context is not available in this data, and no test-score figure here is suppressed or given only as a bound.

The academic standout is Sutton High School (grades 9–12, 367 students), ranked 86th of 353 statewide in 2025–26 — the 76th percentile with 4 stars — and above the state in every reported subject: ELA 10th grade 58.43% vs 45.48%, math 59.55% vs 43.73%, science 47.06% vs 40.50%, and physics 63.49% vs 46.58%, with a 95.0% graduation rate. The caution is momentum: its rank percentile has slipped from 84th to 81st to 76th over three years, and 10th-grade science fell from 66.67% to 47.06% in a single year. Sutton Middle School (grades 6–8, 313 students) ranks 154th of 478 (68th percentile, 3 stars) and improved in 2025–26 in math (40.72% to 47.52%), science (42.22% to 48.45%), and 8th-grade civics (47.73% to 56.70%, well above the state’s 39.77%); its weak spot is 7th-grade math at 31.25% versus the state’s 37.48%.

Sutton Elementary (grades 3–5, 287 students) is the clearest concern: ranked 498th of 899 (45th percentile, 2 stars), it is below the state in ELA (36.40% vs 40.03%), math (39.93% vs 41.11%), and science (40.86% vs 40.98%), having dropped from at-or-above state results the prior year, with 3rd-grade ELA weakest at 34.04% vs 42.79%. Sutton Early Learning (PK–2, 324 students) has no MCAS or ranking data because those grades are not tested, so it cannot be compared fairly. Notably, the school with the highest per-pupil spending and smallest classes is not the top performer, so spending alone does not predict results.