Summary:
ZIP code 02134, covering the Allston neighborhood of Boston, has exactly one elementary school in this data set: Gardner Pilot Academy, a PK–6 school serving 364 students in the Boston district.
Gardner Pilot Academy ranks 299 of 351 districts statewide, placing the Boston district in the 15th percentile with 1 star, and the school itself sits near the bottom of Massachusetts schools: 781 of 899 in 2025–2026, the 13th percentile, 1 star. That ranking has slipped over three years, from 693 of 916 (24th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 746 of 906 (18th percentile) in 2024–2025 and then 781 of 899. In 2025–2026 MCAS, ELA proficiency was 19.05% and math 20.00%, against district figures of 29.41% and 29.12% and state figures of 40.03% and 41.11% — roughly 10 points below the district and about 21 points below the state. Every reported grade and subject scored below both district and state, with 3rd-grade ELA weakest at 12.82% and 3rd- and 6th-grade math tied lowest at 17.95%.
Science is the one bright spot: all-grades proficiency climbed from 11.59% in 2024–2025 to 25.00% in 2025–2026, edging above the district's all-grades science figure of 24.94%, though the 5th-grade science result of 25.00% still trails the district's 5th-grade 26.88% and the state's 43.07%. ELA fell 5.14 points year over year, while math dipped 1.03 points. Context figures look favorable — a 9.4 student-teacher ratio and $27,615 per-student spending from 2020–2021 — but those inputs are not reflected in current outcomes, and the older spending data cannot be tied to today's results. Two data limits matter: the free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank, so economic context is unknown, and an 8th-grade civics record conflicts with the school's PK–6 grade span and should not be used to judge its elementary grades.
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