Summary:
ZIP code 02332 covers two elementary schools in Duxbury, Massachusetts — Chandler Elementary serving grades PK–2 and Alden School serving grades 3–5 — which together enroll 1,287 students in a single high-performing district, Duxbury, ranked 46th of 351 Massachusetts districts at the 87th percentile with 4 stars.
Rather than competing, the two schools form a grade-band pair: Chandler feeds students into Alden, so they never serve the same grades and cannot be compared academically head-to-head. Alden School is the academic standout and the only one with test data, since state testing begins in grade 3. Its students score well above the state in every subject — 64.63% proficient in math, 58.46% in ELA, and 57.41% in science in 2025–2026, versus roughly 40–41% statewide. Fourth-grade math is the brightest spot, at 74.0% proficient, 30.8 points above the state. Alden ranked 146th of 899 schools (84th percentile, 4 stars) in 2025–2026, down from 63rd of 906 (5 stars) the prior year. ELA is Alden's relative weakness within Duxbury — slightly below the district average but far above the state — and science posted the largest year-over-year drop, falling 16.70 points.
Chandler Elementary is the larger school by 43 students (about 7% bigger) and serves the youngest learners. It spent $18,900 per student in 2020–2021 versus Alden's $17,366 — roughly 8.8% more — which may reflect early-childhood and preschool program costs. Chandler's student-teacher ratio is slightly higher, 12.7 versus Alden's 11.8. Chandler has no MCAS results in this data, so its outcomes cannot be evaluated here, and free/reduced-lunch figures are not reported for either school, meaning economic comparisons are not possible.
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