Summary:
Zip code 01460 in Littleton, Massachusetts has two elementary schools serving about 800 students: Shaker Lane Elementary for grades PK–2 with 425 students and Russell St Elementary for grades 3–5 with 375 students, both in the Littleton district, which ranks 37 out of 351 Massachusetts districts, in the 89th percentile with 4 stars. Together they form a clean grade-band pair, so there is no overlap in tested grades.
Russell St Elementary is the standout school with available school-level performance data. It has been a 4-star school for three years: 187 out of 899 schools in 2025–2026 (79th percentile), 221 out of 906 in 2024–2025 (76th percentile), and 189 out of 916 in 2023–2024 (79th percentile). Its 2025–2026 all-grade MCAS proficiency is above the state in English Language Arts (53.44% vs. 40.03%), Mathematics (59.68% vs. 41.11%), and Science (63.16% vs. 40.98%). Math and Science are relative strengths; 5th grade math reached 64.04% versus 39.50% statewide, and 4th grade math reached 62.50% versus 43.20% statewide. Fifth grade ELA was 47.83%, the school’s lowest tested area, but still above the state’s 38.15%. Year over year, results were essentially flat. Its all-grade ELA is below the district’s 61.09%, but grade-level comparisons are close or slightly above, so this should not be read as a simple school-level deficit.
Shaker Lane Elementary is larger and had higher per-student spending: $17,638 in 2020–2021, compared with $15,543 at Russell St, about $2,095 or 13.5% more. Their 2024–2025 student–teacher ratios are nearly identical (13.2 vs. 13.1). Shaker Lane has no MCAS scores here, which is expected for a PK–2 school, and free/reduced-lunch data is not provided for either school, so socioeconomic context is unavailable. No conclusion can be drawn about spending effectiveness because the spending year differs from the achievement years. Overall, this is a high-performing district with two schools serving different grade bands: Russell St offers strong, stable test results, while Shaker Lane’s performance data is unavailable.
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