Summary:
ZIP code 02338 is served by a single elementary school: Halifax Elementary, a K–6 school located at 464 Plymouth Street in Halifax, MA, with 531 students. It belongs to the Halifax district, which ranks 74th out of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 79th percentile, with 4 stars. Because there is only one elementary school in this ZIP code, there is no in-area school-to-school comparison to make; the useful comparison is between Halifax Elementary and statewide averages.
On the 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, Halifax Elementary scored above the Massachusetts average in every subject tested. All-grades ELA proficiency was 60.71% versus the state's 40.03%, mathematics was 53.31% versus 41.11%, and science was 58.97% versus 40.98%. Fifth grade is the school's strongest grade level: 65.38% proficient in ELA, 63.29% in mathematics, and 58.97% in science, compared with state figures of 38.15%, 39.50%, and 43.07%. The narrowest advantage is 3rd grade mathematics, at 46.48% versus the state's 42.19% — a difference of +4.29 percentage points, still above average but the smallest gap in the record. Sixth grade ELA, at 55.56%, is the school's lowest ELA grade yet remains 15.30 points above the state.
Halifax Elementary has also improved its statewide standing over three years: its rank moved from 241st out of 916 in 2023–2024, to 218th out of 906, to 200th out of 899 in 2025–2026, with its percentile rising from 74 to 78 while holding 4 stars each year. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, mathematics and science gains outpaced the state, while ELA slipped by 1.97 points, slightly more than the state's 1.50-point decline — its ELA lead remains large. Families should note the data limits: the free/reduced-lunch figure is blank rather than zero, spending per student ($12,640) dates from 2020–2021, and the 13.5 student-teacher ratio has no state benchmark in this data.
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