Summary
Dale Street is a public elementary school in Medfield, Massachusetts — a suburban town in the Boston area — serving 384 students in grades 4 and 5 as part of Medfield Public Schools, a district ranked 12th of 351 in the state. Statewide, Dale Street ranked 65th of 899 elementary schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 93rd percentile with 5 stars. From 2020–2021 through 2024–2025 the school was consistently a top-50 performer, so this year's ranking is a modest step down, though still firmly within the top 7% of Massachusetts elementary schools.
MCAS results show math as the clearest strength: 75.20% of students were proficient, above the district's 72.04% and far above the state's 41.11%. ELA came in at 64.21%, which is 5.64 points below the district, and science at 62.29%, 7.60 points below the district. All three subjects declined from 2024–2025 — ELA by 5.04 points, math by 5.77 points, and science by 12.46 points, the largest shift in the school's recent profile. Within the school, 4th-grade math reached 79.41% while 5th-grade math fell to 70.29%, a 9.12-point gap. Science sits well behind nearby high performers such as Martha Jones in Westwood (82.46%) and Chickering in Dover (75.00%).
Compared with neighbors, Dale Street's math is above Medfield's Ralph Wheelock and Walpole's Fisher, but below Chickering, Martha Jones, and William E Sheehan. Subgroup results are a real positive: male students, female students, special education students, and low-income students all rank in the 90th percentile or higher statewide, suggesting strong performance is broad-based. Dale Street's student–teacher ratio of 13.2 is much lower than Medfield's Memorial (18.6) and Ralph Wheelock (18.1), but higher than Chickering (11.0) and Sheehan (11.7), and it has risen from 11.6 over three years — worth monitoring. Per-student spending was $16,222 in 2020–2021, below many nearby schools, though that figure is dated.
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