New "Best MA Schools" Ranking: Any From Berkshire County Make It?

For the first time ever, U.S. News & World Report published a list ranking the best elementary and middle schools in the United States earlier this week. Several from the Bay State showed up fairly high in the rankings.

This new ranking is in addition to the annual ranking of high schools released every year. There is no national ranking for kindergarten through 8th-grade schools, so there are overall state rankings and state rankings broken out by school districts.

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At least 80,000 public elementary and middle schools were ranked. Scoring was mostly based on students’ performance in mathematics and reading/language arts state assessments.

According to U.S. News & World Report, these assessments are administered by every state to determine how well schools are teaching their students and whether learning in specific subjects is achieved.

Here are the 10 highest-ranked middle schools in Massachusetts:

Thomas Prince School - Princeton
Boston Latin School - Boston
Heath School - Chestnut Hill
William Diamond Middle School - Lexington
Edith C. Baker School - Chestnut Hill
Weston Middle School - Weston
O'Bryant School Math/Science - Boston
Pollard Middle School - Needham
Jonas Clarke Middle School - Lexington
Sarah W. Gibbons Middle School - Westboro

And here are the 10 highest-ranked elementary schools in Massachusetts:

Martha Jones Elementary School - Westwood
Horace Mann Elementary School - Melrose
Albert S. Woodward Memorial School - Southboro
Spring Street Elementary School - Shrewsbury
Mary Lee Burbank Elementary School - Belmont
Vinson-Owen Elementary School - Winchester
Chickering Elementary School - Dover
Ambrose Elementary School - Winchester
Deerfield Elementary School - Westwood
Benjamin G. Brown School - Somerville

You can visit U.S. News & World Report's website here to check out more Massachusetts schools and see how they ranked in the study.

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