Summary:
ZIP code 01938 covers Ipswich, Massachusetts, and contains two elementary schools — Winthrop and Paul F Doyon Memorial — both serving grades PK–5 in the Ipswich district, with nearly identical enrollment (373 and 366 students) and a shared district rating of 72 of 351 districts, 79th percentile, 4 stars.
The two schools are close in overall quality, and both earned 4 stars in every reported year, but their profiles differ. Doyon Memorial currently holds the stronger statewide position — 184 of 899, 80th percentile — after overtaking Winthrop, which ranked 155 of 916 in 2023–2024 but has since slipped to 242 of 899, 73rd percentile. Doyon is the math leader: 61.08% proficient in 2025–2026 versus Winthrop's 55.23%, and 60.84% versus 54.34% the year before. Winthrop's clearest edge is science, at 68% proficient in 2025–2026 compared with Doyon's 65.45%, though Doyon's 74.55% science result in 2024–2025 was the highest single all-grade subject score in this data set. In every all-grade subject in both years, both schools scored well above the state average — for example, Winthrop's science was 27.02 points above the state and Doyon's math was 19.97 points above it.
ELA is the relative soft spot: in 2025–2026 both schools fell below the district's 55.72%, with Winthrop at 49.71% and Doyon at 52.07%, while still exceeding the state's 40.03%. Grade-level results vary, with Doyon stronger in 3rd and 5th grade and Winthrop stronger in 4th grade and 5th-grade science, though small student groups make these figures volatile. Winthrop spent more per student in 2020–2021 ($20,853 versus $20,522) and had a slightly lower student-teacher ratio (10.1 versus 10.5), yet Doyon ranks higher today — the spending data is old, and no causation should be assumed. Free/reduced lunch percentages are not reported for either school, so economic composition and equity gaps cannot be compared.
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