Summary:
Elementary schools in ZIP 02130 (Jamaica Plain, Boston) comprise five public schools serving PK–6 or PK–8 grades within Boston Public Schools, with a combined enrollment of 2,181 students and widely varying results.
The performance gap here is striking. Manning Elementary School is the standout by a wide margin, ranking 86th percentile with 4 stars and posting 68.06% proficiency in ELA, 63.89% in math, and 70.59% in science — the only school in the ZIP above the state average in all three subjects, including 94.12% in 5th-grade math. At the other extreme, Hennigan Elementary School ranks 2nd percentile with 0 stars, has been in the bottom 2% for three straight years, and reports just 6.42% in ELA, 6.91% in math, and 11.63% in science. The two schools sit in the same ZIP code and district, yet their ELA gap is 61.64 points. In between, Kennedy John F Elementary School (40th percentile, 2 stars) is balanced and above district averages in all three subjects, while Boston Teachers Union Elementary Pilot School (49th percentile, 2 stars) has improved steadily from 39th to 49th percentile but is uneven.
A key pattern is middle-grade decline at the PK–8 schools. Curley K-8 School, the largest school with 902 students (54th percentile, 3 stars), does reasonably well in grades 3–6 — 3rd-grade ELA 51.65%, 6th-grade math 46.32% — but collapses in grades 7–8, with 8th-grade science at 2.82%. BTU reports 0% in several 7th- and 8th-grade categories. Overall, the ZIP averages above the Boston district but below the state in all three subjects, and because the largest schools post the lowest scores, enrollment-weighted results are lower still (about 30% ELA, 29% math, 28% science).
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