Lawrence

Lawrence Elementary serves 615 students across kindergarten through eighth grade as a regular public school in Brookline, Massachusetts. It earns a composite score of 9.3 out of 10 — rated Exceptional — built on a 9.3 academic score and a 9.4 growth score that signals students are advancing well beyond expected trajectories year over year. The school ranks first among all ten public schools in Brookline and outperforms 99% of public schools across Massachusetts.

Statewide, that translates to 14th out of 1,791 public schools and 12th among more than 1,000 Massachusetts elementary schools. Those positions hold across both achievement and growth dimensions, which matters: a school can post high scores on the strength of an advantaged student population while still underdelivering on actual learning gains. Lawrence does neither.

A student-teacher ratio of 13.1 to 1 provides the instructional bandwidth to sustain that performance across 615 students and nine grade levels. For families comparing elementary options in Brookline or evaluating schools across the state, Lawrence sits at the top of a very competitive field — not by a narrow margin, but by a gap wide enough to be the first school worth examining in any serious search.