Summary:
ZIP code 02170 in Quincy, Massachusetts is home to three elementary schools: Beechwood Knoll Elementary (K–5, 343 students), Wollaston School (K–5, 318 students), and Dr. Rick DeCristofaro Learning Center (PK–8, 261 students). All three belong to the Quincy district, which ranks 183 of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 48th percentile, at 2 stars.
Wollaston is the strongest and most consistent performer, ranking 100 of 899 schools in 2025–2026 and holding the 89th percentile with 4 stars for three straight years, placing it in the top 11% statewide. Its 2025–2026 proficiency was 62.26% in ELA, 66.25% in math, and 72.22% in science — well above district and state averages. Beechwood Knoll is close behind and improving, rising from the 58th percentile (3 stars) to the 77th percentile (4 stars) over three years, with 54.66% in ELA, 54.66% in math, and 67.27% in science. Both schools beat district and state results in every reported subject and grade level; science is a shared strength, far above the district's 43.31% and the state's 40.98%.
Dr. Rick DeCristofaro Learning Center is a major outlier: its reported 2025–2026 all-grade proficiency is 0% in ELA and 0% in math, with no science score, no rank history, and no prior-year results — figures best interpreted cautiously given its PK–8 structure and different student population. Its student-to-teacher ratio of 9.1 is much lower than Wollaston's 13.2 and Beechwood's 14.7. Free/reduced lunch data is blank for all three schools, and spending figures exist only for Beechwood ($15,492) and Wollaston ($16,265), from 2020–2021. Overall, Wollaston and Beechwood are strong, above-average options, while DeCristofaro's data is too incomplete to compare directly.
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