Summary
William S Greene is a PK–5 elementary school with 733 students at 409 Cambridge Street in Fall River, MA, part of the same district, and it currently ranks at the very bottom of Massachusetts elementary schools. In 2025–2026, it ranked 869th of 899 schools statewide, in the 3rd percentile with 0 stars.
MCAS proficiency is low across subjects: 11.58% in English Language Arts, 12.54% in Math, and 6.67% in Science. That is below the Fall River district’s 18.24% in ELA and Math and 15.29% in Science, and far below the state. Science dropped sharply from 17.86% in 2024–2025. Among nearby Fall River schools, William S Greene has the lowest ELA and Math proficiency; James Tansey has 30.50% ELA and 38.30% Math, Samuel Watson has 31.43% ELA and 31.43% Math, and South in Somerset has 31.45% ELA and 50.82% Math. The school’s student–teacher ratio is 13.8, and per-student spending was $16,537 in 2020–2021, similar to some higher-performing peers, so class size and spending alone do not explain the performance pattern.
For parents, the key takeaway is that William S Greene has been persistently bottom-decile, not a one-year dip; it has not been above the bottom quartile in recent years. Subgroup results are uneven: English Language Learner students are a relative bright spot at the 39th percentile, up from 31 in 2024–2025 and 24 in 2023–2024, while special education and low-income students rank at the 5th percentile in 2025–2026. The data cannot show why outcomes are low, but it suggests asking about school-level supports, curriculum, and intervention. The cross-district contrast is stark: South in Somerset ranks in the 50th percentile, showing how differently nearby schools can perform even though district context may differ.
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