Summary:
ZIP code 02081 has two public elementary schools — Fisher and Elm Street School — both serving grades K–5 in the Walpole school district, with 901 students enrolled combined: 463 at Fisher and 438 at Elm Street. The district ranks 42nd out of 351 Massachusetts districts, in the 88th percentile with 4 stars. Free/reduced lunch data is not provided for either school, so that context is unknown.
Fisher is the academic standout: it ranks 57th out of 899 elementary schools statewide for 2025–2026, in the 94th percentile with 5 stars, returning to 5 stars after a 4-star year. It leads Elm Street in every all-grade subject — ELA at 64.17 vs. 60.85, math at 73.75 vs. 63.87, and science at 75.49 vs. 59.09. Fisher's strongest single result is 4th-grade math at 77.19.
Elm Street is consistently strong at 133rd out of 899, the 85th percentile with 4 stars, holding between the 85th and 86th percentile across three years. Its main weakness is math, which fell from 70.31 to 63.87 — below the district average of 65.20 — driven by 4th-grade math at 60.98 and 5th-grade math at 57.95. Elm Street is stronger in 3rd grade (3rd-grade ELA 68.66 vs. Fisher's 58.02, and 3rd-grade math 75.00), while Fisher is stronger in grades 4 and 5. Both schools score well above state averages in every subject. Elm Street spends slightly more per student ($15,909 vs. $15,680), though that figure is from 2020–2021 and is not a current comparison.
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