Summary:
ZIP code 01223 contains a single elementary school: Becket Washington School, a PK–5 school with 91 students located at 12 Maple Street in Becket, part of the Central Berkshire district. Because it is the only school in the area, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the useful comparison is against its district and the state.
In 2025–2026, Becket Washington scored above both its district and Massachusetts in all three tested subjects: ELA at 50.00 (district 45.56, state 40.03), Mathematics at 53.19 (district 44.23, state 41.11), and Science at 69.23 (district 48.26, state 40.98). Science is the clearest strength, 20.97 points above the district and 28.25 above the state, and it has topped both benchmarks two years running. Mathematics saw the biggest change: after finishing below both benchmarks in 2024–2025 at 33.33, it rose 19.86 points. ELA has been steady and above benchmarks both years, at 48.57 and then 50.00.
Grade-level results within the school are uneven. Third and fifth grades were strong in 2025–2026 — 5th grade posted 53.85 in ELA, 69.23 in Math, and 69.23 in Science, all above district and state — while 4th grade posted 16.67 in ELA and 23.08 in Math, well below both. With only 91 students, a few students can move a grade-level rate by many points, so these swings should be read cautiously. The school's state rank moved from 262 of 916 (71st percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024, down to 427 of 906 (53rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, then back up to 274 of 899 (70th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026. The student-teacher ratio is 10.2, and spending per student was $21,213 in 2020–2021; the free/reduced-lunch figure is unavailable in this data.
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