Summary:
Zip code 01921 covers Boxford, Massachusetts, where two elementary schools serve a combined 778 students in a split configuration: Harry Lee Cole for pre-kindergarten through grade 2, and Spofford Pond for grades 3 through 6. Both belong to the Boxford district, which ranks 87th of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 75th percentile, rated 4 stars.
Spofford Pond is the academic standout and the only school here with state test results, since MCAS testing begins in grade 3. In 2025–2026, its All Grades proficiency was 53.88% in ELA, 57.28% in math, and 52.43% in science, all well above state averages in the low 40s. Math is especially strong: grade 4 reached 65.38% and grade 6 reached 63.96%, against state figures near 43%. Grade 5 is a relative dip within the school (41.75% ELA, 43.69% math), though both remain above state. Science fell about 8.9 points year over year, from 61.32% to 52.43%, but elementary science testing here is tied to grade 5, so this likely compares two different cohorts. ELA and math were steadier, down only about 1.7 and 0.7 points. Spofford Pond's rank has held roughly flat at the 75th–76th percentile across three years.
Harry Lee Cole cannot be judged academically from this data because it has no MCAS results. Its distinctions are structural: it serves 367 students and has the higher per-student spending in the supplied figures, $20,723 in 2020–2021 versus $20,426 at Spofford Pond, along with a student-teacher ratio of 13.0 compared with 9.9. Free/reduced lunch percentages are blank for both schools for 2024–2025 and should not be read as 0%. Because the two schools serve different grade bands, they are not direct academic peers; families move from Cole into Spofford Pond.
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