Summary:
Zip code 02138 is served by six schools in the Cambridge district: four elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, enrolling 3,638 students combined. Enrollment is heavily concentrated at Cambridge Rindge and Latin, which alone has 2,072 students — about 57% of the zip's total. The middle school, Darby Vassall Upper School, is much smaller at 298, while the four elementaries — Maria L. Baldwin (360), Graham and Parks (367), John M Tobin (291), and Haggerty (250) — total 1,268.
Academically, the zip spans a wide range. Maria L. Baldwin is the standout: ranked 5th of 899 elementary schools (99th percentile, 5 stars), with proficiency of 78.75% in ELA, 83.13% in math, and 74.47% in science — far above both district and state. John M Tobin is also a 5-star school (85th of 899), though its math and science results dipped noticeably this year. Cambridge Rindge and Latin has climbed steadily from 141st to 77th and posts a 94.2% graduation rate against the district's 91.7%, plus a lower dropout rate. Darby Vassall Upper School improved to 111th of 478 and beats state averages in every listed subject, though it sits below district in the core three.
At the other end, Graham and Parks and Haggerty are both 3-star schools below district in ELA, math, and science, with steep single-year declines; Haggerty's science fell from 60.00% to 30.43%, the lowest in the zip and below the state. The spread between Baldwin and Haggerty is striking — roughly 32 points in ELA and 44 in science — despite serving the same zip code and district. Notably, Haggerty has the highest per-student spending ($34,911) while Tobin has the lowest ($32,016) and the stronger results, so spending does not track outcomes here. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for every school, so economic context cannot be assessed from this data.
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