Best Elementary Schools in Massachusetts for Female Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in Massachusetts!

Every year, the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Female students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

JUST IN! Massachusetts MCAS Next Generation test scores and updated rankings for the 2022-23 school year were recently posted to SchoolDigger!

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish Massachusetts test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2021)							Ranking (Female vs All Students - 2023)
ID	Rank (of 887)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Female)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Female)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
251227002023	1	John D Hardy	Public	K-5	293 Weston Rd	Wellesley	02482	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	Yes	(781) 446-6270	213	19	11		105 (49.3%)	4 (1.9%)	23 (10.8%)	61 (28.6%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	20 (9.4%)	$22,589			$502			$22,088	99.9%	99.9%	0.00%
250249000148	2	Winn Brook	Public	K-4	97 Waterhouse Rd	Belmont	02478	Middlesex County	Belmont	No	No	No	No	(617) 993-5700	421	27	15.7		238 (56.5%)	7 (1.7%)	22 (5.2%)	117 (27.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	37 (8.8%)	$15,767			$679			$15,088	99.8%	99.8%	0.01%
250249000146	3	Mary Lee Burbank	Public	K-4	266 School Street	Belmont	02478	Middlesex County	Belmont	No	No	No	No	(617) 993-5500	354	25	13.9		222 (62.7%)	18 (5.1%)	6 (1.7%)	85 (24.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	23 (6.5%)	$16,574			$805			$15,769	99.7%	99.7%	0.01%
250327000443	4	Martin Luther King Junior	Public	PK, KG-5	102 Putnam Avenue	Cambridge	02139	Middlesex County	Cambridge	No	No	No	No	(617) 349-6562	323	34	9.4		78 (24.1%)	49 (15.2%)	16 (5.0%)	106 (32.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	74 (22.9%)	$36,282			$484			$35,797	99.5%	99.6%	0.02%
250279000230	5	Eliot K-8 Innovation School	Public	PK, KG-8	16 Charter Street	Boston	02113	Suffolk County	Boston	No	No	No	Yes	(617) 635-8545	796	56	14.2		491 (61.7%)	42 (5.3%)	116 (14.6%)	94 (11.8%)	1 (0.1%)	2 (0.3%)	50 (6.3%)	$24,377			$2,140			$22,237	99.4%	97.8%	1.59%
250861001371	6	Mason-Rice	Public	K-5	149 Pleasant Street	Newton Centre	02459	Middlesex County	Newton	No	No	No	No	(617) 559-9570	337	30	11.1		210 (62.3%)	3 (0.9%)	17 (5.0%)	75 (22.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	32 (9.5%)	$20,465			$1,388			$19,077	99.3%	99.0%	0.29%
250684000994	7	Bowman	Public	K-5	9 Philip Rd	Lexington	02421	Middlesex County	Lexington	No	No	No	No	(781) 861-2500	430	42	10.3		181 (42.1%)	16 (3.7%)	22 (5.1%)	165 (38.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	46 (10.7%)	$20,053			$387			$19,666	99.2%	99.4%	0.14%
251227002022	8	Hunnewell	Public	K-5	28 Cameron Street	Wellesley	02482	Norfolk County	Wellesley	No	No	No	No	(781) 446-6275	218	17	12.6		176 (80.7%)	6 (2.8%)	12 (5.5%)	12 (5.5%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	12 (5.5%)	$21,443			$959			$20,484	99.1%	99.5%	0.36%
250002200514	9	Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School	Public, Charter	PK, KG-6	21 Notre Dame Avenue	Cambridge	02142	Middlesex County	Benjamin Banneker Charter Public (District)	Yes	No	No	Yes	(617) 497-7771	329	21	15.6		10 (3.0%)	265 (80.5%)	28 (8.5%)	6 (1.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	19 (5.8%)	$24,797			$1,945			$22,852	99.0%	97.6%	1.36%
250171000008	10	Paul P Gates Elementary School	Public	K-6	75 Spruce Street	Acton	01720	Middlesex County	Acton-Boxborough	No	No	No	Yes	(978) 266-2570	368	28	13.3		96 (26.1%)	7 (1.9%)	21 (5.7%)	226 (61.4%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	18 (4.9%)	$16,703			$936			$15,767	98.9%	97.7%	1.14%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts, MCAS Next Generation Mathematics, MCAS Next Generation Science test scores released by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
These rankings were last updated on September 19, 2023, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

Educational resources:

Per-Pupil Spending: Understanding the Breakdown of Federal, State, and Local Funds

Student-Teacher Ratios and their Impact on Class Sizes & School Selection

SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. School Attendance Areas provided by ATTOM.