3 Lexington Elementary Schools Are Among The 25 Best In MA, U.S. News

LEXINGTON, MA — Three Lexington elementary schools are among the state's best, according to a new ranking Tuesday from U.S. News & World Report.

Joseph Estabrook was 10th, Bowman was 11th, and Maria Hastings was 16th.

U.S. News researchers based the 2027 ranking of the nation’s best public elementary schools on the latest publicly available data from state education agencies by RTI International, alongside data from the U.S. Department of Education. In the past, the state reports weren’t part of the methodology.

The data from the state agencies provides a more comprehensive assessment of student performance in reading and mathematics across all proficiency levels while continuing to account for student background and absolute performance on state assessments.

“By incorporating direct state data across all proficiency levels, the 2027 rankings offer a richer, more complete picture of how elementary and middle schools are driving student growth,” Eric Brooks, U.S. News director of education data analysis, said in a news release.

Elementary schools are those offering either pre-K-5 or pre-K-6 education. For schools that have a wider grade span, only tests through fifth grade were considered. The report includes 46,000 public elementary schools ranked at the state and district levels. Charter schools are a stand-alone category.

The top 25 public elementary schools in the Bay State are:

1. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School (Cambridge)
2. Chilmark Elementary School (Chilmark)
3. John D. Hardy Elementary School (Wellesley)
4. Woodland School (Weston)
5. Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School (Cambridge)
6. Country Elementary School (Weston)
7. Baldwin School (Boston)
8. Eliot K-8 Innovation School (Boston)
9. Paul P. Gates Elementary School (Acton)
10. Joseph Estabrook Elementary School (Lexington)
11. Bowman Elementary School (Lexington)
12. Albert S. Woodward Memorial School (Southborough)
13. Plymouth River Elementary School (Hingham)
14. Katharine Lee Bates Elementary School (Wellesley)
15. Luther B. Conant School (Acton-Boxborough)
16. Maria Hastings Elementary School (Lexington)
17. William E. Sheehan School (Westwood)
18. Happy Hollow Elementary School (Wayland)
19. Field Elementary School (Weston)
20. Swallow Union Elementary School (Dunstable)
21. Memorial Spaulding Elementary School (Newton)
22. Hunnewell Elementary School (Wellesley)
23. John M. Tobin Montessori School (Cambridge)
24. Roger E. Wellington Elementary School (Belmont)
25. Mary Lee Burbank Elementary School (Belmont)

The middle school rankings come less than a month after Patch reported that several Massachusetts schools are among the best high schools in the country.

In its 2027 Best Schools and Districts in America rankings, Niche had the Massachusetts Academy for Math and Science at the top of the list for the Bay State. You can find the complete list here.