Summary:
There is one elementary school in ZIP code 01506: Brookfield Elementary, a PK–6 building serving 289 students at 37 Central Street in Brookfield, Massachusetts, and operating as the sole school in the Brookfield district. Because the district contains only this one school, district-level and school-level results are the same numbers, which means every "district versus state" comparison in the data is really this school versus the state. It is a small, well-staffed school, with a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.1 in 2024-25.
Academically, Brookfield Elementary performs above the Massachusetts average in every reported subject and grade across both years of available test data — 15 of 15 school-level proficiency comparisons. In 2025-26 it exceeded the state in all 12 reported metrics. Mathematics and science are its strongest areas: math ran 11–17 points above the state across the two years, and science 17–31 points above. English language arts is solid but comparatively flat, leading the state by only about 3–7 points and never by a wide margin. Grade-level results vary: grade 5 is consistently strong in all three subjects, while grade 6 is lopsided — 74.36% proficient in math (about 32 points above the state) but just 41.03% in ELA, essentially matching the state average.
The school's statewide rank improved to 257th of 899 schools (71st percentile, 4 stars) in 2025-26, up from 329th of 906 (64th percentile, 3 stars) the prior year. Science's apparent 14-point drop from 72.97% to 58.54% reflects a different group of fifth graders, not the same students losing ground. Note that class sizes here are small — roughly 40 students per tested grade — so one child moves a grade-level rate by about 2.5 points, and small year-to-year differences should not be over-read. Free/reduced-price lunch data is not reported, and the only spending figure ($16,206) is from 2020-21.
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