Summary:
ZIP code 01902 covers Lynn, Massachusetts and holds 13 schools — 8 elementary, 1 middle, 3 high, and 1 alternative K–12 charter — enrolling 10,655 students in total. Twelve schools belong to the Lynn district, which ranks 332 of 351 districts (5th percentile, 0 stars), while KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School operates as its own district. The largest schools are Lynn English High (2,062), KIPP (1,637), Lynn Vocational Technical Institute (1,584), and Thurgood Marshall Mid (1,310); the smallest are Harold Durgin Success Academy (94), Aborn (224), and Brickett Elementary (318). Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for every school, so that measure is unknown here.
For parents, the academic standout is Aborn: 3 stars, 54th percentile, with 2025–2026 all-grade proficiency of 48.54% in ELA, 37.86% in math, and 42.42% in science — above the state in ELA and science, and far above the Lynn district (16.30%, 14.02%, 15.35%). KIPP Academy Lynn Charter School combines strong completion (97.6% graduation, 1.6% dropout) with 10th-grade ELA of 65.55% and math of 52.14%, both above state. Lynn Vocational Technical Institute posts the best completion in the ZIP — 99.3% graduation and 0.0% dropout versus district rates of 75.6% and 20.2% — despite low proficiency, and Hood leads the traditional Lynn elementaries in math and science.
The concerns are broad. Ingalls, E J Harrington, and Cobbet Elementary show 2025–2026 all-grade ELA of 7.51% to 9.59%, math of 7.39% to 10.92%, and science of 3.16% to 9.38%. Harold Durgin Success Academy is an extreme outlier: highest 2020–2021 per-student spending ($41,810), a 45.8% graduation rate, and reported 0% all-grade ELA and math in 2024–2025. Lynn English High has the lowest spending ($14,421) and highest student-teacher ratio, and science lags across all three high school programs. Spending and outcomes do not move together here, and small schools like Aborn and Harold Durgin can swing sharply year to year.
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