Summary
Winship Elementary School is a PK–6 Boston Public Schools school in Brighton, MA, serving 353 students in a neighborhood just west of downtown Boston. While the Boston district as a whole ranks 299th of 351 districts statewide, Winship itself ranks 282nd of 899 schools in 2025–2026 (69th percentile, 3 stars) and earned 4 stars in each of the two prior years. In 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, 54.71% of students were proficient in ELA, 48.52% in math, and 47.73% in science — all above both district and state averages.
Compared with nearby Boston schools, Winship stands out. Its ELA proficiency is 35–39 points higher than Gardner Pilot Academy, Edison Elementary School, and Lyon Elementary School, and its math is 26–29 points higher, even though Winship has a higher student-teacher ratio (13.8) than those peers. Against adjacent suburban districts, the picture is more mixed: Winship is in the same overall range as Watertown's Hosmer, but generally trails Newton and Brookline schools such as Underwood, Michael Driscoll, John D Runkle, John Ward, and Roland Hayes by wide margins, especially in math and science.
Winship has improved substantially since the mid-2010s, when it sat in the bottom quartile, though 2025–2026 brought a small rank decline, a drop from 4 to 3 stars, and a science dip. Its strongest results are in upper-grade ELA (5th and 6th grade above state), while 3rd grade ELA was its only reported area below the state average. Low-income, English learner, and special education students generally rank at or above the school's overall level, making Winship a strong option within Boston, though families comparing it with Newton or Brookline should expect a different level of math and science performance.
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