Summary:
ZIP code 02189 is home to three public schools, all in the Weymouth district: two K–5 elementary schools, Academy Avenue and Lawrence W Pingree, plus one grades 6–8 middle school, Maria Weston Chapman Middle School. There is no high school here, so older students attend school outside the ZIP and this list is not a full K–12 picture. Enrollment totals 1,810 students, and the middle school holds about two-thirds of them at 1,187, compared with 357 at Academy Avenue and 266 at Pingree. The district is rated 2 stars, ranking 187 of 351 Massachusetts districts, though all three individual schools show 3 stars in their recent rank history. Free and reduced-lunch percentages are blank for every school in 2024–2025, so family income context is unknown rather than zero.
Academy Avenue is the strongest performer, leading all three schools in ELA (50.82%), Math (47.28%), and Science (61.02%), and ranking in the 67th percentile among elementary schools. Its 5th grade ELA (63.79%) and Science (61.02%) are especially notable. Lawrence W Pingree is second in all three subjects, and its science (56.82%) is well above the state's 40.98%, but its rank fell from the 63rd–64th percentile to the 55th, with ELA down about 7 points and Math about 8 points year over year. Chapman stays steady near the 50th–51st percentile; its ELA (41.30%) edges past district and state, but Math (34.84% vs. 41.11%), Science (25.67% vs. 40.98%), and Civics (26.79% vs. 39.77%) trail the state.
Two contrasts stand out for parents. Elementary science is far above state levels while middle-school science is roughly 15 points below, though these compare different tested grades. Also, Pingree spends more per student ($17,789 vs. $14,681) and has a smaller student-teacher ratio (13.4 vs. 15.1) than Academy Avenue, yet scores lower, and Chapman has the smallest ratio at 11.1 without top-tier results.
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