Summary:
ZIP code 02144 contains three public elementary schools, all in the Somerville district: John F Kennedy (PK–8, 439 students), West Somerville Neighborhood (PK–8, 397 students), and Benjamin G Brown (K–5, 219 students), serving 1,055 students in total. Although the area lists no standalone middle, high, or alternative schools, two of the three schools run through grade 8. The Somerville district ranks 198th of 351 districts in Massachusetts, at the 44th percentile with 2 stars, but school-level results within this ZIP code differ sharply from that district picture.
Benjamin G Brown is the standout, ranking 6th of 899 schools statewide for 2025–2026 — the 99th percentile with 5 stars — after moving from 113th to 70th to 6th over three years. Its all-grade proficiency is 79.80 in ELA, 78.79 in math, and 85.19 in science. John F Kennedy ranks 134th of 899 (85th percentile, 4 stars), with 64.53 in ELA, 66.11 in math, and 64.04 in science, and is especially strong in middle grades. West Somerville Neighborhood ranks 383rd of 899 (57th percentile, 3 stars), up from the 44th percentile two years earlier, with 45.38 in ELA, 45.57 in math, and 47.30 in science. All three exceed state averages (40.03 ELA, 41.11 math, 40.98 science).
At the grade level, Benjamin G Brown leads every shared grade and subject comparison, and its lowest 2025–2026 grade-level score, 4th-grade ELA at 73.17, tops West Somerville Neighborhood's best grade-level result (3rd-grade ELA at 72.22) and all John F Kennedy grade-level scores except 7th-grade ELA at 79.55. West Somerville Neighborhood is uneven: 4th-grade ELA is 28.21 and 5th-grade math is 36.11. Benjamin G Brown has the smallest enrollment, the lowest per-student spending shown ($18,254), and the highest student–teacher ratio (14.5). Free/reduced-lunch data are not available for any of the three, and because one school is K–5 while the others are PK–8, all-grade comparisons are not perfectly like-for-like.
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