Schools in Zip Code 02370

Zip code 02370 covers Rockland, Massachusetts, where four public schools educate roughly 2,158 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. Two are elementary schools: Phelps Elementary School (grades 1–4) and R Stewart Esten Early Childhood Center (PK–K). One is a middle school, John W Rogers Middle (grades 5–8), and one is a high school, Rockland Senior High (grades 9–12); there are no alternative schools. All four belong to the Rockland district, which ranks 217 of 351 in Massachusetts — the 38th percentile, with 2 stars. That rating is district-wide context rather than a school-specific score.

Each school has distinct strengths. Phelps is the math standout: 41.45% proficient in all-grade math versus the district's 35.40% and the state's 41.11%, and its 4th-grade math score of 48.70% is the highest single result in the data. John W Rogers Middle shines in 8th-grade Civics at 45.16% (state: 39.77%) and 8th-grade Science at 40.00% (state: 38.93%). Rockland Senior High leads in Biology at 47.77% (state: 37.68%) and 10th-grade Science at 42.50% (state: 40.50%), with a graduation rate of 87.5% against the district's 85.3%. Esten, serving PK–K, has no MCAS scores but the smallest enrollment (242), the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.6), and $18,622 per-pupil spending in 2020–2021.

The main academic concerns are core ELA and math in the upper grades. At the middle school, all-grade ELA is 30.89% and math 33.44%, both below state figures of 40.03% and 41.11%. At the high school, 10th-grade ELA is 33.08% (state: 45.48%) and 10th-grade math is 27.13% (state: 43.73%); the dropout rate is 10.3% versus the district's 9.8%. Year-over-year declines are notable: middle ELA fell from 39.02% to 30.89%, high-school ELA from 42.55% to 33.08%, high-school math from 36.43% to 27.13%, and Phelps math from 45.54% to 41.45%. Phelps slipped from the 54th to the 46th percentile, dropping from 3 stars to 2, while the middle school held 3 stars and the high school recovered partly to the 47th percentile. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for every school, so equity comparisons cannot be made.