Schools in Zip Code 02446

ZIP code 02446 in Brookline, Massachusetts is home to four public schools — Florida Ruffin Ridley School, Lawrence, Pierce, and Michael Driscoll — all part of the Brookline district and all serving students from preschool or kindergarten through 8th grade, with 2,646 students combined. Each is labeled an elementary school, but together they cover the full K–8 span, and there is no separate middle or high school in this ZIP. The Brookline district itself ranks 16th of 351 districts statewide.

All four schools sit in roughly the top 10% of Massachusetts schools, so the differences among them are relative. Lawrence is the academic leader — ranked 29th of about 899 schools, the only one here to improve its rank every year, and highest in both English language arts and math. Florida Ruffin Ridley School is the largest school and the fastest improving, climbing 73 places in two years to earn a fifth star, though it still posts the lowest scores in the ZIP. Pierce is the most balanced and efficient: strongest in science, lowest student-teacher ratio, lowest per-student spending, and second-highest overall. Michael Driscoll is the upper-grades and science standout, posting the single highest score in the data set (8th grade math 92.59%), but the weakest early-grade reading results.

Some patterns are shared across all four. Every school posts its lowest or near-lowest reading result in 4th grade and lands below the district there, and grades 6–8 consistently outperform grades 3–5. Spending and class size do not explain the differences: the highest-spending school has the lowest scores, and student-teacher ratios are all between 13.3 and 14.0. Free/reduced-lunch data is not available for any of the four, so income-based comparisons are not possible.