The top reported proficiency rate is 61% in Math. The lowest is 60% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Freetown Elementary School
Freetown Elementary School serves the village of East Freetown, a semi-rural part of the town of Freetown in southeastern Massachusetts. The school covers pre-kindergarten through third grade, which means students leave after third grade and continue their education at other schools within the Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District. Because this is an early-elementary school, there is no graduation rate to report and no data on high-school-level indicators such as chronic absenteeism or AP course access; those metrics simply do not apply to this grade band.
The student body is overwhelmingly white, with modest shares of students who are two or more races, Hispanic, Asian, Black, and American Indian or Alaska Native. The school enrolls a substantial number of children in each of its five grade levels, from pre-K through third grade. Data on the share of students who qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and on students with individualized education programs was not available from the source, so a family evaluating the school's overall support profile will want to ask the district directly about these populations.
On state assessment results, Freetown Elementary's performance is a clear strength for a school of this type. On the Next-Generation MCAS, the proportion of students scoring at the proficient level or above in both math and English language arts was above the midpoint of all tested schools in Massachusetts. Compared to other districts in Bristol County, the school's combined proficiency index places it in the top quartile. That is a strong showing for a school serving only early elementary grades, a period when many children are still developing foundational skills. In math, about three out of five students reached proficiency; in ELA, a comparable share did. Participation on test days was very high.
Multi-year trend data shows some fluctuation. In ELA, the proficiency rate was in the low to mid sixties before the pandemic, dropped to the low forties in the 2022-23 school year, and then recovered to roughly three out of five students in the most recent testing year. Math followed a similar pattern, with a pre-pandemic high in the low eighties, a dip into the low forties, and a rebound to about three out of five. This pattern of a pandemic-era drop followed by recovery is common across many Massachusetts schools and does not suggest a systematic weakness specific to this school.
The district itself, Freetown-Lakeville Regional, was classified by the state as not requiring assistance or intervention in its most recent accountability report, a designation that indicates adequate academic performance overall. No major district-level changes or controversies surfaced in publicly reported materials.
East Freetown is a quiet village with a compact historic core of clapboard cottages, a church, a library, and stone bridges along winding roads. Outside that center, the village spreads into low-density rural roads with heavy tree cover. The housing market in the broader area reflects the region's high demand. For a family considering a move, the school sits in a part of the state where homes are priced well above the national benchmark, and the local market shows elevated demand with relatively low supply. The area is car-dependent, and the school is on a separate campus from the district's upper-grade schools.
For a parent evaluating Freetown Elementary, the picture is of a small, neighborhood-style primary school with strong recent test results and a stable administrative context. The biggest factor a family will want to investigate is the transition after third grade, since the school does not carry students through the upper elementary or middle school years. That means the district's other buildings and their academic profiles will matter just as much as this one in the long run. Within its own grade band, the school is performing well relative to peers in the county.
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