Summary:
ZIP code 02482 in Wellesley, Massachusetts, has three public schools — Hunnewell, Sprague Elementary School, and John D Hardy — all of them K–5 elementary schools in the Wellesley district, with 863 students enrolled across the three. There are no middle, high, or alternative schools in this ZIP code, so this picture covers the early grades only. The district is one of the strongest in Massachusetts, ranked 5th of 351 at the 99th percentile.
John D Hardy sits in a different tier from its neighbors. It ranked #1 of 906 schools in 2024–2025 and #2 of 899 in 2025–2026, at the 100th percentile with 5 stars, and it posted the highest all-grade proficiency of the three in every subject for 2025–2026 (ELA 78.57%, Math 85.16%, Science 86.67%). Sprague Elementary School is strong in ELA (77.52%, the top ELA score among the three) and Math (75.97%), improving by more than 6 points in ELA and more than 7 in Math over the prior year, but its 5th-grade Science score of 56.82% is a sharp outlier — a 21.61-point drop from its own prior year and 18.74 points below the district. Hunnewell is the science standout at 85.42%, close to Hardy, though its ELA (71.53%) and Math (73.10%) trail the district; it also spends the least per student, $21,443.
Every reported school-level proficiency score beats the corresponding state figure, generally by 30–45 points in ELA and Math. Grade-level results still swing widely: Hunnewell's Math ranges from 82.05% in 3rd grade to 63.79% in 4th, and Sprague's from 86.05% in 4th to 68.89% in 5th, while Hardy stays within about 2 points at every grade. Sprague has both the highest per-student spending ($24,057) and the highest student-teacher ratio (11.7), yet its science result pulls its overall performance down. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not available for these schools, and middle and high school outcomes cannot be described here.
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