Summary:
ZIP code 01521 is served by a single elementary school — Holland Elementary — a PK–6 school with 212 students in Holland, Massachusetts, and the only school in the Holland district. Because there is only one elementary school in the area, there are no other local schools to compare it against; the most useful context comes from comparing it with statewide averages and with its own results over time.
Mathematics is the school's clear strength. In 2025–2026, all-grade math proficiency was 54.69, compared with the state's 41.11, a gap of +13.58 percentage points; in 2024–2025 it was 49.56 against the state's 40.74, a gap of +8.82. Holland Elementary beat the state in math at every reported grade level in 2025–2026, with the largest margins in 3rd grade math (68.75 vs. 42.19, +26.56) and 6th grade math (65 vs. 42.59, +22.41). Science was far more variable: all-grade science was 61.11 in 2024–2025, which was +19.60 above the state's 41.51, but fell to 41.67 in 2025–2026, only +0.69 above the state's 40.98. Since elementary science MCAS is typically given in grade 5, this swing most likely reflects a different tested cohort rather than a change across the whole school. English Language Arts sits close to the state overall — 41.41 vs. 40.03 in 2025–2026 and 41.59 vs. 41.53 in 2024–2025 — but grade-level results vary widely, from 6th grade ELA at 60 (+19.74) and 3rd grade ELA at 53.13 (+10.34) to 5th grade ELA at 27.78 (−10.37) and 4th grade ELA at 35 (−2.43).
The school's ranking has been steady rather than dramatic: it placed in the 59th–61st percentile among ranked Massachusetts schools in each of the last three years, earning 3 stars each time, and the district ranks 159 of 351, or the 55th percentile. Other available figures include a student-teacher ratio of 10.6 (roughly 20 teachers for 212 students) and per-student spending of $16,879 from 2020–2021. Note that the free/reduced lunch percentage is unreported in the source, so it is unknown rather than zero, and the spending figure is several years old. Because no state benchmark is provided for the student-teacher ratio, it is best read as generally favorable rather than directly comparable.
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