Erving Elementary

Erving Elementary is a PK–6 public school in the small Franklin County town of Erving, MA, serving about 113 students — the smallest enrollment in its comparison set apart from Gill Elementary. It is the only school in the Erving district, so school and district results are the same, and it just posted its best year in a decade: a jump to a 62nd percentile rank and 3 stars in 2025–2026, up from the bottom quartile in every prior year on record. That is a 295-position leap in a single year and roughly double the school's previous best.

The turnaround is concentrated in math and science. Erving's all-grade math proficiency of 55.74% is 14.6 points above the state and the highest of any nearby school — ahead of Leverett Elementary (51.43%), Northfield Elementary (45.10%), and far above Sheffield Elementary School (14.18%) and Newton School (10.34%). Fifth-grade science, at 57.14%, is 16.2 points above the state. English language arts is the weak spot: 39.34% sits essentially at the state line and well behind Leverett's 59.42%. In fact, Erving and Leverett land at nearly the same overall rank through opposite profiles — Leverett is an ELA school, Erving is a math and science school. Third, fifth, and sixth grade all beat the state in math by double digits, but fourth grade trails it by 16–24 points in both subjects; with cohorts of roughly a dozen students, that is a volatility signal worth watching rather than a clear trend.

Two structural features stand out. Erving spends $41,150 per student (2020–2021), about 1.9 times the regional median, partly because a one-school district carries full administrative overhead across 113 students. It also has the lowest student-to-teacher ratio in the group at 6.1:1. The school has served its low-income students well — that subgroup ranked at the 59th percentile in 2024–2025, above the school's own overall rank that year — though no current special-education figure is available to confirm whether those students have shared in the recent gains.