Summary:
ZIP code 02492 is Needham, Massachusetts, and its three elementary schools — Broadmeadow, Newman Elementary, and William Mitchell — serve pre-kindergarten or kindergarten through fifth grade, with 1,622 students combined. All three are part of the Needham school district, which ranks 20th of 351 districts statewide (94th percentile, 5 stars). Every one of these schools scores far above the Massachusetts average in ELA, math, and science.
Newman Elementary is the strongest all-around performer right now: 70.61% ELA, 72.38% math, and 67.96% science, plus the best rank of the three at 43rd of 899 schools (95th percentile, 5 stars). It is also the largest school (696 students), has the lowest student-teacher ratio (12.3), and reports the highest per-student spending ($21,757 in 2020–21). Broadmeadow is the most consistent — 5 stars in all three reported years — with the top 2025–26 science score (70.59%) and the best third-grade ELA (78.48%) and math (74.68%). William Mitchell is the smallest (424 students) and its all-grade scores are the lowest of the three, with a 2025–26 rank of 118th of 899 and 4 stars, down from 47th the year before; still, it has the highest fourth-grade ELA (63.49%) and fifth-grade math (76.32%).
All three schools saw scores fall from 2024–25 to 2025–26 in ELA, math, and science, with science dropping the most at each — though elementary science is tested only in fifth grade, so cohort changes may explain much of it. In 2025–26 all three sat below the Needham district average in math but above it in science, and math remains a district-wide strength. Worth noting: free/reduced-lunch percentages are not reported for any of these schools, spending figures are from 2020–21, and student-teacher ratios are from 2024–25.
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