Schools in Zip Code 02338

ZIP code 02338 in Halifax, Massachusetts is served by a single public school, Halifax Elementary, an elementary school covering grades K–6 with 531 students. Because it is the only school in the area, there are no local peers to compare against, so the most useful benchmarks are the school's own grade-by-grade results versus Massachusetts state averages and its year-over-year trend. The Halifax district ranks 74th of 351 Massachusetts districts, placing it in the 79th percentile with 4 stars.

On the 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation assessments, Halifax Elementary outperformed the state in every subject tested: English Language Arts at 60.71% versus the state's 40.03% (a gap of 20.68 points), Mathematics at 53.31% versus 41.11% (+12.20 points), and Science at 58.97% versus 40.98% (+17.99 points). Because the district contains only this one school, district and school figures are identical. Fifth grade is the standout: ELA at 65.38% (+27.23 points over state), math at 63.29% (+23.79 points), and science at 58.97% (+15.90 points). ELA is strong in every tested grade, with the lowest, 6th grade at 55.56%, still 15.30 points above state. Math is above state everywhere but is the least dominant subject, with 3rd grade math at just +4.29 points.

The school's rank has improved over two years, moving from 241st of 916 in 2023–2024 to 200th of 899 in 2025–2026, with percentile rising from 74 to 78 and stars holding at 4. Year-over-year results are mostly stable: math improved by 0.85 points and science by 1.62 points, while ELA slipped 1.97 points. Enrollment is 531 with a student–teacher ratio of 13.5, and per-student spending was $12,640 in 2020–2021. Free and reduced lunch status is not reported, so socioeconomic context is unknown and should not be assumed to be zero, and the older spending figure cannot be judged as high or low without comparison data.