Summary:
Zip code 02458 has four schools, all in the Newton district: three K–5 elementary schools — Horace Mann, Lincoln-Eliot, and Underwood — and one 6–8 middle school, Bigelow Middle. Total enrollment is 1,374 students: 940 in elementary and 434 in middle. There are no high schools in this list, so families here would look outside these four for grades 9–12. Newton is a high-performing district, ranking 30th of 351 Massachusetts districts at the 91st percentile with 5 stars.
Bigelow Middle is the clear academic leader — 43rd of 478 middle schools, 91st percentile, 5 stars, and the only school here at or above the district in all-grade ELA (68.91) and math (69.21), though it trails district science at 59.85. Underwood is the strongest elementary (140th of 899, 84th percentile, 4 stars), with the highest elementary ELA and science, but its science fell from 84.85 to 65.91 and it has the highest student-teacher ratio at 11.1. Lincoln-Eliot is the most improved, gaining in all three subjects and rebounding from 3 stars to 4, with the lowest ratio at 9.3. Horace Mann has the steadiest rank climb (75th to 80th percentile) but the lowest elementary math and science, and the lowest per-student spending reported.
Context matters: every school here scores above the state average in every reported subject, so falling below the Newton district average is not the same as low performance. Science is Bigelow's relative weak spot, and grade-level results there are uneven, with a very strong 6th grade carrying much of the overall result. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all four schools, spending figures are from 2020–2021, and student-teacher ratios are from 2024–2025, so those measures are dated or incomplete.
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