Summary:
ZIP code 02134 (Allston) is served by just one public school in this data set: Gardner Pilot Academy, an elementary school covering grades PK–6 with 364 students. It belongs to the Boston district, which itself ranks 299 of 351 districts statewide (15th percentile, 1 star). Because there is only one school here, the useful comparisons are the school against its district and against Massachusetts as a whole, plus its own year-over-year trends.
Gardner Pilot Academy's overall profile is low-performing. In 2025–2026 it ranked 781 of 899 schools statewide (13th percentile) with 1 star, down from the 24th percentile in 2023–2024 and the 18th percentile in 2024–2025 — a three-year slide in relative standing. In 2025–2026, 19.05% of students were proficient in English language arts and 20.00% in math, compared with roughly 29% in Boston and roughly 40–41% statewide. That puts the school about 9–10 points behind the district and about 21 points behind the state in both subjects, and it trails the district in ELA and math at every tested grade. Third-grade ELA is the weakest single result at 12.82%, nearly 30 points below the state.
Science is the one bright spot: all-grades science proficiency reached 25.00% in 2025–2026, essentially matching Boston's 24.94% and up sharply from 11.59% the year before — the only major subject where the school is not behind the district. The school also reports a favorable 9.4:1 student-teacher ratio and $27,615 in per-pupil spending, though that spending figure is from 2020–2021 and no state or district comparison is provided. Families should note two data gaps: the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, and a reported 8th-grade civics score does not fit a PK–6 school, so it should be treated cautiously.
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