Summary:
Tewksbury has three elementary schools serving different grade spans: Center Elementary School (grades 2–4), L F Dewing (PK–1), and Heath-Brook (PK–1), all within the Tewksbury district, which is ranked 152 of 351 statewide at the 57th percentile with 3 stars. Total elementary enrollment is 1,484. Center Elementary is the largest at 812 students—54.7% of the total, and more than the other two combined—and it also has the highest student/teacher ratio at 14.1, compared with 12.6 at L F Dewing and 12.5 at Heath-Brook.
Center Elementary is the only school here with current MCAS results, and those results are strong. In 2025–2026, 44.1% of students were proficient in English language arts, above the district's 41.28% and the state's 40.03%, while math proficiency reached 49.26% against 42.07% district and 41.11% state. Math is the clearest strength, running 8.15 points above the state, with 3rd grade math at 50.84%. Center also improved its rank from 411 of 906 (55th percentile) in 2024–2025 to 365 of 899 (59th percentile) in 2025–2026.
The two PK–1 schools have no current MCAS data, so any academic comparison rests on historical rankings from 2007–2008 through 2009–2010, which are more than 15 years old and should not be read as current performance. In that window, L F Dewing ranked between the 45th and 58th percentile with two 3-star years, while Heath-Brook sat consistently in the low 30s with 2 stars. Heath-Brook has the smallest enrollment at 300 and the highest reported per-student spending, $17,514 in 2020–2021 versus $16,920 at L F Dewing. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all three schools, so economic-disadvantage comparisons are not possible from this data.
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