Summary:
ZIP code 02030 covers Dover, MA, and contains just one public elementary school in this data set: Chickering, which serves grades PK–5 with 492 students and an 11:1 student–teacher ratio. Because there is no other school in the ZIP to compare against, the meaningful benchmarks are Chickering versus the state and versus its own prior years. The school is part of the Dover district, which ranks 15th of 351 districts statewide (96th percentile, 5 stars). Chickering itself ranks 47th of 899 elementary schools in 2025–2026 — the 95th percentile — and has earned 5-star ratings for three straight years, with its rank improving from 56th to 50th to 47th.
Proficiency rates are far above the state in every subject. In 2025–2026, math was 77.82% proficient versus 41.11% statewide, science 75% versus 40.98%, and ELA 68.91% versus 40.03% — roughly 1.7× to 2.4× the state average. The single most striking figure is 5th grade math at 92.65%, about 2.35× the state rate and a gap of more than 53 percentage points. Performance climbs steadily by grade in both core subjects: math goes 62.20% (Grade 3) to 80.90% (Grade 4) to 92.65% (Grade 5), and ELA goes 60.49% to 72.73% to 73.91%. Third grade is the school's comparative soft spot, though still comfortably above state. Math is the strongest subject and widened its lead this year, gaining 5.90 points while state math rose only 0.37; ELA held essentially flat, and science slipped 2.78 points.
Two caveats are worth keeping in mind. The free/reduced-lunch percentage is unavailable for this school, so it is not possible to gauge how much of the outperformance reflects economic context; that field should not be read as zero. Per-student spending of $20,711 comes from 2020–2021, several years older than the test data. Also note that science is tested only in Grade 5, so the year-over-year science change compares two different groups of students rather than tracking the same children. Even so, the overall picture is unusual stability at a very high level.
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