Summary
E J Harrington is a PK–5 elementary school at 21 Dexter Street in Lynn, MA, enrolling 687 students — one of the larger elementary schools in its immediate comparison group — as part of the Lynn school district, which itself ranks 332 of 351 Massachusetts districts (5th percentile, 0 stars).
Harrington's own 2025–2026 rank is 885 of 899 Massachusetts elementary schools — 2nd percentile, 0 stars — so it performs below an already low-performing district average. On the 2025–2026 MCAS, 8.8% of students met expectations in English Language Arts, 7.39% in math, and 9.38% in science, roughly half the district average and about one-fifth of the state average in ELA and math. Every tested grade and subject came in under 10% proficient, from 5.49% in 3rd grade math to 9.28% in 4th grade math. Science dropped sharply, from 17.44% the prior year and 20% two years before. The decline is long-term: Harrington sat at the 23rd–27th percentile from 2015–2016 through 2018–2019 and has remained in the 2nd–8th percentile range since 2020–2021.
Nearby comparisons place Harrington in the bottom cluster. It ranks 9th of 10 nearby tested schools in both ELA and math, ahead only of Cobbet Elementary in ELA and Wm P Connery in math. Hood, Tracy, Robert L Ford, Washington Elementary School, and Brickett Elementary generally outperform it. Aborn, about a mile away, ranks in the 54th percentile with 3 stars and posts 48.54% ELA, 37.86% math, and 42.42% science. Aborn enrolls 224 students versus Harrington's 687, but Ingalls is also large at 719 students and ranks at the 3rd percentile. Resource indicators don't clearly separate Harrington from its peers, and effectiveness rankings for most student subgroups are in the single digits, with English Language Learner students the relative exception at the 26th percentile. Free/reduced lunch data are suppressed in this dataset.
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