Best Elementary Schools in Zip Code 01469

Zip code 01469 in Townsend, MA has two elementary schools in the North Middlesex district: Spaulding Memorial, which serves grades 2–4 and enrolls 413 students, and Squannacook Early Childhood Center, which serves PK–3 and enrolls 89 students, for a combined 502 students. Spaulding Memorial is the larger school, with about 82.3% of the two-school enrollment, while Squannacook has about 17.7%. The district context is a rank of 229 of 351 districts, the 35th percentile, with 2 stars.

Spaulding Memorial is the clear academic standout in this data set. On 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, it outperformed both the district and the state in every reported subject and grade. All Grades ELA was 45.89% proficient vs district 36.39% and state 40.03%; All Grades Mathematics was 50.96% vs district 35.59% and state 41.11%. Its strongest margin over the state was 3rd Grade Mathematics at 53.33%, more than 11 percentage points above the state, and All Grades Mathematics was 9.85 points above the state. Spaulding also held 3 stars in each of the last three school years, with percentile 64 in 2023–2024, 56 in 2024–2025, and 63 in 2025–2026, while the district sits at 2 stars and the 35th percentile. In 2025–2026, Spaulding improved All Grades ELA from 43.27% to 45.89% and All Grades Mathematics from 48.82% to 50.96%, even as the district declined in both.

Squannacook Early Childhood Center has a different profile and cannot be compared academically here because this data set provides no MCAS scores or rank history for it; that is a data limitation, not evidence of low performance. It is much smaller, serves PK–3, and has a 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio of 17.1 compared with Spaulding’s 13.7, which is about 24.8% higher. Its per-student spending is $21,737 for 2020–2021, $3,722 more than Spaulding’s $18,015, or about 20.7% higher, though those spending figures are several years older than the ratio and test data. Free/reduced lunch is blank for both schools, so it is unknown rather than zero. Parents should read the comparison with caution because spending is from 2020–2021 and Squannacook lacks test and rank data.