Summary:
Zip code 02169 contains 10 schools — six elementary, three middle, and one high school — all part of the Quincy district, together serving about 5,024 students from prekindergarten through grade 12 in a compact, densely populated Boston-area community. The district as a whole is ranked 183 of 351, in the 48th percentile with 2 stars, but the individual schools in this zip code perform very differently from one another: two are 3-star schools, six are 2-star, and two are 1-star.
Merrymount is the strongest school here, ranked 344 of 899 (62nd percentile, 3 stars) and the only school that clearly beats both district and state in ELA, math, and science at the all-grade level. Charles A Bernazzani Elementary is the other 3-star standout (59th percentile), with the highest all-grade math among the listed schools and a science score of 60% versus district 43.31% and state 40.98%. At the other end, Atherton Hough (15th percentile, 1 star) and Snug Harbor Community School (22nd percentile, 1 star) fall far below district and state in every subject. Quincy High, the only high school, has a strong graduation rate of 95.6% (above the district's 93.9%) but a dropout rate of 3.7% (above the district's 2.6%) and MCAS scores below district and state.
Middle school math is the clearest shared weakness: all three middle schools trail district and state in all-grade math, and the 7th-grade math average across them is only about 21.8%, against district 38.93%. Eighth-grade science also drops sharply, averaging about 28.3% against district 41.24%, while 5th-grade science is comparatively strong. There are bright spots even in lower-ranked schools, such as Broad Meadows Middle scoring 50.94% in 8th-grade ELA. Spending and class size show no simple link to results: the two top schools spend below the 10-school average of about $17,247, while the highest-spending school, Snug Harbor at $18,767, is 1-star — though that spending data is from 2020–2021.
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