Schools in Zip Code 02472

ZIP code 02472 covers Watertown, Massachusetts, where five public schools — three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school enrolling about 2,844 students — make up the Watertown district, which ranks 110 of 351 statewide at the 69th percentile with 3 stars.

Elementary and middle results run consistently above the state. Hosmer, the largest elementary with 758 students, leads elementary ELA (50.72) and Math (57.19), while James Russell Lowell posts the top science score in the group at 64.71, more than 23 points above the state — though its ELA dropped from 58.20 to 47.88. Watertown Middle is the clearest improvement story, rising to 4 stars, reaching the 74th percentile, and gaining in Math (+5.07), Science (+8.28), and Civics (+10.15). Cunniff, the smallest school with 320 students, has the lowest student-teacher ratio (8.0) and the highest per-student spending ($24,988), yet the lowest rank and lowest ELA (42.45) of the five — a reminder that smaller classes and higher spending do not automatically produce stronger outcomes. Free/reduced lunch figures are blank for every school, so socioeconomic comparisons are not possible here.

Watertown High is mixed: it beats the state in 10th grade ELA (52.47) and Math (47.13) and in Physics (49.07), and its 89.7 graduation rate tops the district's 87.6. But 10th grade Science (37.84) falls below the state's 40.50, and Biology End of Course sits at 6.67 against 37.68 statewide — the sharpest red flag in the data. Spending, staffing, and test-score figures come from different years, so cross-metric comparisons are approximate.