Summary:
ZIP code 01012 — Chesterfield, MA — is served by a single public elementary school, New Hingham Regional Elementary, a PK–6 building with 126 students in the Chesterfield-Goshen district. With only one school in the area, there is no local comparison set; the meaningful benchmarks are the state of Massachusetts and the school's own record. It is a small rural building with an 8.7:1 student–teacher ratio (2024-25) and per-student spending of $23,721 (2020-21), though the spending figure is four years older than the enrollment count and shouldn't be read as a current budget. A free/reduced-lunch rate is not reported, so the socioeconomic context of these results is unknown.
Academically the school looks average from a distance but uneven up close. Across all grades in 2025-26, Math (41.18%) essentially matched the state (41.11%), while ELA (32.35% vs. 40.03%) and Science (35.71% vs. 40.98%) lagged. All three subjects dropped sharply from 2024-25, when Math and Science were well above state. The grade-level picture splits cleanly: 6th grade is the standout, with Math at 68.42% — 25.8 points above the state — and ELA 1.85 points above it, while 3rd grade trails the state by 27.4 points in ELA and 19.1 in Math. Both subjects rise steadily from grade 3 through grade 6.
Statewide, the school has rated 2 stars at the 42nd percentile in 2025-26, after a 3-star, 57th-percentile year in 2024-25 and a 38th-percentile year before that — solidly mid-pack but volatile, and the ranking moves track the test scores. The biggest caveat is size: with roughly 13–22 students tested per grade, one child shifts a grade-level rate by 5–8 percentage points, so single-year, single-grade swings are noisy. Math has matched or beaten the state in both years while ELA has trailed in both — the most durable signal here.
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