Summary:
ZIP code 02056 covers Norfolk, Massachusetts, and lists three schools enrolling about 1,762 students: two elementary schools and one middle school, with no high school in this data set. King Philip Middle School serves grades 7–8 with 706 students in the King Philip district, while Freeman-Kennedy School (grades 3–6, 579 students) and H Olive Day (grades PK–2, 477 students) belong to the Norfolk district. Both districts hold 4 stars, but Norfolk ranks higher at 40 of 351 districts (89th percentile) versus King Philip's 100 of 351 (72nd percentile).
On 2025–2026 MCAS, Freeman-Kennedy School is the standout, beating the state by about 18.7 points in ELA (58.72% vs. 40.03%), 25.3 points in math (66.43% vs. 41.11%), and 19.8 points in science (60.74% vs. 40.98%). Its state rank has climbed three years running, from 183 of 916 (80th percentile) to 128 of 899 (86th percentile). King Philip Middle School also tops the state in every reported subject — ELA 46.58%, math 53.64%, science 44.44%, and grade-8 civics 44.78% — but by smaller margins, and its rank slipped to 131 of 478 (73rd percentile) in 2025–2026. Notably, math outpaces ELA at both schools (about 7.7 points at Freeman-Kennedy, 7.1 at King Philip Middle), far more than the roughly 1.1-point state gap.
H Olive Day has no MCAS results here because it serves PK–2, so it is best judged on operations and its role feeding into Freeman-Kennedy. It has the smallest student-teacher ratio (11.2) versus Freeman-Kennedy (12.4) and King Philip Middle (14.1), and the highest per-student spending ($17,516, from 2020–2021) versus $17,334 and $16,224. One caution: free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all three schools, so socioeconomic context is unknown, and spending figures are several years old.
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