Summary:
ZIP code 01253, which covers Otis, Massachusetts, contains exactly one public school: Farmington River Elementary, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 124 students and part of the Farmington River Regional district. Because it is the only school in the area, there are no local schools to compare against, so the most useful comparisons are between this school and statewide results, and across its own recent years and grade levels.
The school's biggest story is recent improvement. Its state rank moved from 482 of 906 schools in 2024–2025 (47th percentile, 2 stars) to 367 of 899 in 2025–2026 (59th percentile, 3 stars) — a 12-point percentile gain in a single year. In 2025–2026, all-grade English Language Arts proficiency was 48.21% versus the state's 40.03%, and Mathematics was 47.37% versus 41.11%. Science was the weak spot at 33.33%, below the state's 40.98%. Upper-grade reading is especially strong: 6th grade ELA scored 61.54% (21.28 points above the state), 5th grade 53.33% (+15.18), and 4th grade 50% (+12.57), while 3rd grade ELA lagged at 31.25% (−11.54). Math was above the state in 3rd, 5th, and 6th grades, but slightly below in 4th grade.
Context matters here. The school is small — a 9.3-to-1 student-teacher ratio and per-student spending of $31,204 in 2020–2021 — so grade-level percentages rest on very few students, and a one- or two-student change can shift results noticeably. Free/reduced lunch information is not provided, so the economic makeup of the student body is unknown. The district is ranked 164 of 351 (53rd percentile, 3 stars), a different ranking system from the school's 367 of 899, so the two are not directly equivalent. Overall, families are looking at a small school with strong and improving reading and math results and science as the area most in need of attention.
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