Summary:
ZIP code 02719 serves Fairhaven, Massachusetts, a coastal town with four public schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — enrolling 1,727 students in total, all within the Fairhaven district. The district itself sits at the 50th percentile statewide (ranked 174 of 351, 3 stars), but that midpoint masks a wide spread among its individual buildings.
Leroy Wood is the standout: 77th percentile in 2025–26 with 4 stars, and consistently in the 78th percentile the two prior years. Its all-grade scores are 54.45% proficient in ELA, 60.73% in math, and 57.81% in science — well above both district and state. Hastings Middle is above average (62nd percentile, 3 stars) with math at 46.04%, science at 46.62%, and civics at 40.91%, all above state, while its ELA (36.57%) trails the state’s 40.03%. Fairhaven High (46th percentile, 2 stars) posts strong completion numbers — a 94.0% graduation rate and 2.0% dropout rate — but its test scores trail the state in ELA, math, science, and biology. East Fairhaven (42nd percentile, 2 stars) is the lowest-ranked performer, with all-grade results below district and state.
The biggest contrast is between the two elementary schools: same district, same ZIP code, but ELA of 54.45% versus 34.81%, math of 60.73% versus 38.61%, and science of 57.81% versus 38.46%. The gap widens in the upper grades — 5th-grade ELA is 50% versus 21.57%. Notably, East Fairhaven has the highest per-student spending ($16,128) and lowest student–teacher ratio (10.6), while Leroy Wood spends less ($14,218) with a ratio of 13.9, so resources alone do not explain the differences in this snapshot. Science is a recurring pressure point at the high school and at East Fairhaven, where it fell from 52.17% to 38.46%. Free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all four schools, so socioeconomic context is unavailable and comparisons should be read with that caveat.
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