Summary:
ZIP code 01373 is home to exactly one elementary school — Deerfield Elementary, which serves grades PK–6 with 301 students as part of the Deerfield district. Because it is the only school in the area, there are no local peers to compare it with, so its performance is best measured against statewide averages and its own prior years.
Science is the school's clearest strength. In 2025–2026, 51.43% of students were proficient in science, well above the 40.98% statewide figure and 43.07% for grade 5, and that was a 17.53 percentage point jump from 33.90% the year before — while state science slipped slightly. Grade-level results are uneven. Third-grade ELA (48.65% versus 42.79% statewide) and fourth-grade mathematics (51.28% versus 43.20%) came in comfortably above state averages. Overall, the school sat close to the state average in 2025–2026 ELA (39.76% versus 40.03%) and mathematics (41.57% versus 41.11%). It ranked 443 of 899 schools, the 51st percentile, with 3 stars, down from 379 of 906, the 58th percentile, a year earlier.
There are also clear areas of concern. ELA fell 6.67 percentage points year over year and mathematics fell 7.83 points, meaning the school lost ground relative to the state in both subjects. Fourth-grade ELA was the weakest result at 28.21%, 9.22 points below the state, and fifth-grade mathematics was 34.29%, 5.21 points below. The school reports an 8.8 student-to-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and $21,413 in per-student spending in 2020–2021, though no comparison figures are provided and the spending data is several years old. The free/reduced-lunch percentage for 2024–2025 is blank, so it is unavailable rather than zero, which limits what can be said about the school's socioeconomic context.
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