Summary:
Zip code 02481 covers Wellesley, Massachusetts, and its five schools serve every grade from kindergarten through 12th: three K–5 elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school, all within the Wellesley district. Enrollment totals 3,036 students — 855 across the elementaries, 919 at the middle school, and 1,262 at the high school. The district ranks 5th of 351 districts statewide, at the 99th percentile with 5 stars, and each listed school also carries 5 stars in its recent rank history.
The academic standouts are the two top elementaries. Katharine Lee Bates ranks 11th of 899 elementary schools and Joseph E Fiske 13th of 899, both at the 99th percentile. Their ELA proficiency leads the group — Fiske at 84.30% and Bates at 83.77%, against the district's 75.70% and the state's 40.03% — with Fiske's 4th-grade ELA of 92.11% the highest single score in this file. At the next level, Wellesley Middle ranks 7th of 478 (99th percentile), posts 80.95% math and 78.62% science, and has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 8.9. Wellesley Senior High ranks 17th of 353 (95th percentile), with a 96.7% graduation rate and 0.6% dropout rate.
Schofield is the lowest-ranked of the five yet still 37th of 899, at the 96th percentile; its current ELA, math, and science scores trail district averages but sit far above state averages. Science is the shakiest subject at the elementary level, with all three schools declining year over year — Schofield to 67.80%, Bates to 66.67%, and Fiske to 80.00% — though each remains above the state science average. Note that free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all five schools, so equity context is missing, and rank pools differ by level, making percentile a fairer comparison than raw rank.
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