Summary:
Zip code 02492 is served by five Needham public schools — three elementary schools (Newman Elementary, Broadmeadow and William Mitchell) and two middle schools (Pollard Middle for grades 7–8 and High Rock School for grade 6 only), with no high school in this data set — and the Needham district ranks 20th of 351 Massachusetts districts, at the 94th percentile with a 5-star rating.
Pollard Middle is the academic leader, with the highest all-grade ELA (73.85%), math (79.93%) and civics (71.86%) in the group, the lowest student/teacher ratio (10.9), and a 2025–2026 rank of 18th of 478 middle schools. High Rock School follows closely in math at 78.71% and has the highest per-student spending ($22,242), though it has no rank history or science/civics results. Among the elementaries, Newman Elementary ranks 43rd of 899 (95th percentile, 5 stars) with 70.61% ELA and 72.38% math; Broadmeadow leads science at 70.59% but has the highest student/teacher ratio (14.0) and lower ELA (66.27%) and math (68.92%); William Mitchell has the lowest ELA (59.64%) and math (67.71%) and slipped from 5 stars to 4 stars, while still scoring far above state averages.
Notable patterns: science declined at every school with comparable data (Newman −8.23 points, Broadmeadow −6.68, Mitchell −8.64, Pollard −0.98), and ELA and math vary far more between schools than science does. Grade-level results differ widely within schools — Newman's 3rd-grade ELA is 77.39% versus 61.46% in 4th grade. Free/reduced-lunch data are blank for all schools, so results cannot be adjusted for socioeconomic context, and spending figures date to 2020–2021.
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