Summary:
ZIP code 02476 has two elementary schools, Brackett and Cyrus E Dallin, both serving grades K–5 in the Arlington district. Enrollment is nearly identical: Brackett has 394 students and Cyrus E Dallin has 390. The Arlington district is highly ranked—17th of 351 districts in Massachusetts, at the 95th percentile with 5 stars—so both schools share a strong district context.
Academically, each school has a different standout area. Brackett is the science and recent-momentum leader: its 2025–2026 rank is 44th of 899 schools, at the 95th percentile with 5 stars, up from 111th of 906 in 2024–2025. Its 2025–2026 science proficiency is 85.07%, far above the district’s 77.78% and the state’s 40.98%, and its 5th-grade math score is 74.24%, compared with 55.74% at Cyrus E Dallin. Cyrus E Dallin stands out in English Language Arts: all-grades ELA is 71.65%, slightly above the district’s 71.07%, and 4th-grade ELA is 73.77%. Cyrus E Dallin ranked 75th of 899 in 2025–2026, at the 92nd percentile with 5 stars, after ranking 58th of 906 in 2024–2025. Its 2025–2026 math and science results are lower than the district’s, including 63.96% in all-grades math and 70.49% in science.
Both schools score well above the state average in ELA, math, and science, and their rankings trade places across years, suggesting two consistently strong schools with year-to-year variation. For context, Cyrus E Dallin spent $17,108 per student in 2020–2021 and had a 12.1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025; Brackett spent $16,088 and had a 13.1 ratio. These figures do not establish that spending caused the test-score differences. Free/reduced-lunch data are blank/not available for both schools in 2024–2025, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this data set and should not be treated as 0%. Overall, Brackett is notable for science, 5th-grade math, and recent upward momentum, while Cyrus E Dallin is notable for ELA, especially 4th-grade ELA.
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