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Park Avenue Elementary

Public Grades PK, KG-4
804th
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 899 Massachusetts Elementary Schools
Better than 11% of Massachusetts elementary schools
Summary

Park Avenue Elementary is a PK–4 school at 58 Park Avenue in Webster, Massachusetts, serving 738 students as part of the Webster district — by far the largest school among its nearby peers in this part of south-central Massachusetts, enrolling nearly twice as many students as the next-largest comparison school.

Academically, the school sits in the bottom quartile statewide. In 2025–26 it ranked 804 of 899 Massachusetts elementary schools (11th percentile, 1 star), and across a full decade of rankings it has never left the bottom quartile. That year, 18.57% of students were proficient in ELA and 21.51% in math, against statewide figures of 40.03% and 41.11%. Among nearby schools that test grade 3 or higher, Park Avenue is second-lowest in both subjects — ahead of only Charlton Street, and behind Heritage School, Clara Barton, Sutton Elementary, and Dudley Elementary. Math is consistently the stronger half, and grade 4 math (26.47%) is the school's best single result, while grade 3 math (16.78%) is its weakest. Because the school ends at grade 4, it has no science results to compare with peers that serve grade 5.

Park Avenue outperforms its own district in every reported subject and year, a meaningful distinction in a district ranked 342 of 351 statewide. Still, 2025–26 was a clear step back: ELA fell 8.9 points and math 7.0 points from 2024–25, and the overall rank slipped from 691st. Resources do not appear to be the main constraint — the student–teacher ratio was 11.8:1 and per-student spending reached $17,560, better than most nearby schools — yet proficiency remains among the lowest in the group. Keep in mind that the state suppresses free/reduced-price lunch figures for this school and its neighbors, and spending data ends at 2020–21, so the full picture of student need and resources is incomplete.

738
Students ?
11.8
Student/teacher ratio ?
$23,447
Per pupil spending ?
74.7%
Directly certified for free meals (2024-25) ?
All students in Massachusetts receive free school meals.
97%
Kindergartners with all required immunizations (2025-26)
Exemptions: 1% (any vaccine)
 58 Park Avenue
       Webster, MA  01570

(508) 943-4554

District: Webster


Students who attend Park Avenue Elementary usually attend:

Middle:    Webster Middle School
High:    Bartlett High School
Racial breakdown:

White:
45.0%
Hispanic:
39.3%
African American:
9.8%
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At a glance
▼ Ranking trend: Recently slipping — 25th percentile in 2022 → 11th in 2026
Strengths
✓Small classes — about 12 students per teacher
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Massachusetts average (20% vs 41% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (11th percentile)
!Ranking has slipped from its 25th-percentile peak (2022) to 11th (2026)
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school20%
District avg16%
Massachusetts avg41%
804th of 899
Massachusetts public elementary schools ?
Bottom 11%▲ up 7 pts since 2016
From bottom 4% (2016) to bottom 11% (2026)
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★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
342nd of 351Webster among Massachusetts districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202613.4804 of 89910.6%★☆☆☆☆
202523.5691 of 90623.7%★☆☆☆☆
202416.7781 of 91614.7%★☆☆☆☆
202320.7738 of 92820.5%★☆☆☆☆
202225.9695 of 93225.4%★☆☆☆☆
202125.5701 of 93625.1%★☆☆☆☆
201918.6804 of 94214.6%★☆☆☆☆
201821.6767 of 93417.9%★☆☆☆☆
20175.8906 of 9383.4%☆☆☆☆☆
20166.6899 of 9323.5%☆☆☆☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202658.751 of 18872.9%★★★★☆
202577.014 of 16991.7%★★★★★

Disabled

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202233.3432 of 67235.7%★★☆☆☆
202128.7458 of 63227.5%★☆☆☆☆
201917.7620 of 6656.8%☆☆☆☆☆
201821.8573 of 65612.7%★☆☆☆☆

English Language Learner

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202625.6264 of 2919.3%☆☆☆☆☆
202523.2267 of 2815.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202432.9200 of 28229.1%★☆☆☆☆
202341.0136 of 26448.5%★★☆☆☆
202235.4173 of 26735.2%★★☆☆☆
202129.0213 of 24011.3%★☆☆☆☆
201930.2186 of 25827.9%★☆☆☆☆
201849.196 of 24460.7%★★★☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202611.0807 of 8697.1%☆☆☆☆☆
202525.4655 of 86924.6%★☆☆☆☆
202415.6777 of 88612.3%★☆☆☆☆
202319.4730 of 88717.7%★☆☆☆☆
202223.5707 of 90121.5%★☆☆☆☆
202122.4701 of 89821.9%★☆☆☆☆
201925.5718 of 90220.4%★☆☆☆☆
201828.6677 of 89324.2%★☆☆☆☆

Hispanic

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202623.5413 of 47513.1%★☆☆☆☆
202545.0233 of 45849.1%★★☆☆☆
202433.6307 of 44631.2%★★☆☆☆
202337.9265 of 42036.9%★★☆☆☆
202246.5175 of 40156.4%★★★☆☆
202136.7226 of 37940.4%★★☆☆☆
201926.5327 of 39817.8%★☆☆☆☆
201836.9257 of 37932.2%★★☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202630.8563 of 74224.1%★☆☆☆☆
202548.0357 of 73651.5%★★★☆☆
202426.7620 of 76018.4%★☆☆☆☆
202335.0532 of 75729.7%★★☆☆☆
202249.4367 of 77252.5%★★★☆☆
202157.2261 of 70563.0%★★★☆☆
201921.9613 of 70012.4%★☆☆☆☆
201833.4521 of 68523.9%★☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202619.4740 of 87915.8%★☆☆☆☆
202523.6686 of 88422.4%★☆☆☆☆
202421.6714 of 89119.9%★☆☆☆☆
202324.1692 of 89622.8%★☆☆☆☆
202230.7636 of 90830.0%★★☆☆☆
202130.2646 of 90428.5%★☆☆☆☆
201914.9813 of 90710.4%★☆☆☆☆
201816.2791 of 89811.9%★☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202623.4588 of 70917.1%★☆☆☆☆
202536.2432 of 71739.7%★★☆☆☆
202417.5682 of 7316.7%☆☆☆☆☆
202322.3604 of 70314.1%★☆☆☆☆
202243.1512 of 90543.4%★★☆☆☆
202142.5527 of 89441.1%★★☆☆☆
201919.4819 of 8968.6%☆☆☆☆☆
201828.3714 of 88619.4%★☆☆☆☆

Tested In Person

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202123.2710 of 92523.2%★☆☆☆☆

Tested Remotely

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202157.8135 of 39966.2%★★★☆☆

White

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankMassachusetts percentileRating
202610.2690 of 7346.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202517.0654 of 73711.3%★☆☆☆☆
202413.9700 of 7537.0%☆☆☆☆☆
202314.5696 of 7628.7%☆☆☆☆☆
202218.5676 of 76411.5%★☆☆☆☆
202126.9620 of 76519.0%★☆☆☆☆
201914.5724 of 7807.2%☆☆☆☆☆
201813.7713 of 7727.6%☆☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
African American (2026)73rd percentile+62 vs school
Tested Remotely (2021)66th percentile+41 vs school
Disabled (2022)36th percentile+10 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)24th percentile+14 vs school
Tested In Person (2021)23rd percentile~ school
Special Education (2026)17th percentile+6 vs school
Male (2026)16th percentile+5 vs school
Hispanic (2026)13th percentile~ school
English Language Learner (2026)9th percentile~ school
Female (2026)7th percentile-3 vs school
White (2026)6th percentile-5 vs school
By subject vs Massachusetts (2025-2026) ?
Mathematics22%-20 vs state
English Language Arts19%-21 vs state

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Frequently Asked Questions about Park Avenue Elementary

Park Avenue Elementary ranks in the bottom 10.6% of Massachusetts elementary schools.

Students who attend Park Avenue Elementary usually go on to attend:

Middle : Webster Middle School
High : Bartlett High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 738 students attended Park Avenue Elementary.

Students at Park Avenue Elementary are 45% White, 39% Hispanic, 10% African American, 3% Two or more races, 3% Asian.

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Latest Massachusetts data All new data »
2013–14 through 2025–26 immunization rates (updated)NewOct 20, 2026
2024–25 dropout rates & graduation ratesMar 5, 2026
2024–25 MCAS Next Generation test scoresSep 29, 2025
2023–24 school spending dataMay 8, 2025


SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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