Summary:
ZIP code 03770 has one listed elementary school: Plainfield Elementary School in Meriden, serving kindergarten through 8th grade. The school has 183 students, a low reported student-teacher ratio of 8.4 to 1, and is part of the Plainfield School District. Because it is the only elementary school in the ZIP code, there are no nearby school-to-school comparisons within the area; the most useful benchmarks are the district and statewide results.
Plainfield Elementary generally performs better than New Hampshire overall. In 2025–2026, 53% of students were proficient in mathematics, 64% in reading, and 44% in science, compared with 44%, 55%, and 38% statewide. Mathematics was unchanged from the prior year, while reading declined 4 percentage points and science declined 6 points. Results vary considerably by grade. Seventh grade was especially strong, with 81% proficiency in math and 86% in reading, while eighth-grade math reached 68%. Third-grade reading was also strong at 71%. These results indicate that the school can produce excellent outcomes for some student groups and grade levels.
The main areas for parents to examine are fourth-grade and sixth-grade performance. Fourth grade had the school’s weakest results in both mathematics, at 29%, and reading, at 33%, while sixth-grade math was 32%. Science was above the state average but remained below 50% proficiency overall, suggesting room for improvement. The school’s ranking also fell from the 67th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 48th percentile in 2025–2026, and its rating declined from three stars to two. Even so, the school remains above state averages in all reported subjects. Families considering the school may want to ask how it supports students in fourth- and sixth-grade math and reading, how it is responding to recent reading and science declines, and how it maintains the strong performance seen in the upper grades.
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