Summary:
ZIP code 02720 in Fall River contains five elementary schools — North End Elementary, Mary Fonseca Elementary School, Spencer Borden, James Tansey, and Westall Elementary. All belong to the Fall River district, which is ranked 331 of 351 statewide. Four serve PK–5 and one, James Tansey, serves K–5. Combined enrollment is 2,384, ranging from 276 students at Westall to 655 at North End.
James Tansey is the strongest current performer, with the best ELA (30.5%) and Math (38.3%) scores and the highest rank (579 of 899, 2 stars). It also owns the only grade-level result above the state in this group — 4th-grade Math at 45.45% versus the state's 43.2%. But Tansey is slipping: its Math fell from 55.91% to 38.3% and its Science from 47.92% to 28.89%, and it dropped from 3 stars to 2. North End is the most stable option, holding 2 stars for three years and posting the top Science score at 41.98%, just above the state all-grades figure of 40.98%. Spencer Borden spends the most per student ($17,019) yet saw Science collapse from 51.09% to 22.22%.
Mary Fonseca is the lowest performer, with 13.17% in ELA, an 8th-percentile rank, and 0 stars in each of the last three years; its 5th-grade ELA sits at 9.21%. Westall has the lowest Math (16.78%) and Science (12.2%) scores and only one year of data, making its pattern hard to judge. Notably, no school here exceeds the state in current ELA or Math, and higher spending or smaller classes do not reliably translate into better results.
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