Summary:
Ipswich Public School District 22-6 has six schools: four elementary schools, one middle school and one high school; three elementary schools serve students through grade 8. In the latest all-grades SBA results, the five schools with results averaged 67% in ELA and 59% in math, compared with state averages of 49% and 44%. Four of the five were above the state in both subjects; Rosette Colony Elementary was below it in both.
Ipswich Middle School led ELA at 84%, narrowly ahead of Pembrook Colony Elementary at 83%; Pembrook led math at 89%, about 20 percentage points above the next-highest result, Ipswich Elementary at 69%. Rosette was the clear low outlier, at 31% in ELA and 23% in math—37 and 33 points below the next-lowest results, respectively. Deerfield Colony Elementary fell between the leaders and Rosette, with 70% in ELA and 60% in math. At the high school, ACT proficiency was 63% in ELA and 56% in math, both above state results, while science was about 1 point below; graduation was 97%, versus 88% statewide.
Across the five SBA schools, average results rose from 2024–25 to 2025–26 by 6 points in ELA and 5 points in math, but not every school improved: Rosette and Deerfield made notable gains, while Pembrook declined 10 points in ELA and 11 in math, and Ipswich Middle math fell 2 points. SchoolDigger ranks the district 7th of 126, in the 94th percentile with 5 stars; its 2025–26 rankings include Ipswich Middle 10th of 151, Ipswich Elementary 21st of 203 and Ipswich High School 28th of 130. The reported free/reduced lunch eligible shares were 35% at Ipswich Middle, 23% at Ipswich Elementary and 16% at Ipswich High in 2024–25; the colony schools’ figures are older, from 2022–23. These comparisons are useful context, but schools serve different grade spans and the high school uses a different assessment.
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