The top reported proficiency rate is 82% in Science. The lowest is 71% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Collicot
Collicot is one of four elementary schools in Milton, a primarily residential suburban town that sits immediately south of Boston. The school serves students from kindergarten through grade five and is a regular public school within the Milton district. It occupies a campus on Edge Hill Road, separate from the district’s other elementary schools and its middle and high school campuses.
The student body is predominantly White, with a noticeable Asian cohort and smaller shares of students who are two or more races, Hispanic, or Black. Enrollment at Collicot lands at a size that is common for a single elementary feeder school serving a portion of a town this scale. Milton is known for extensive conserved open space, winding tree-lined roads, and several small commercial nodes such as East Milton Square and Milton Village, rather than a single dense downtown. Housing in the area commands a price well above the national median, and the town has a high rate of owner-occupied homes. The Mattapan Line light rail extension of the MBTA Red Line provides transit service with multiple stops in Milton, and the Neponset River Greenway connects the town to Boston Harbor. All six of Milton’s public schools have recently undergone or are currently undergoing renovation or construction, reflecting a sustained investment in facilities.
Collicot’s performance on the state’s NextGen MCAS assessments places it in the top quartile among districts in Norfolk County for overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades. In mathematics and English language arts, the share of students scoring at or above proficiency is strong, and in science that share is even higher. The year-over-year results show a pattern of steady achievement in both math and ELA across recent years, with no dramatic swings. Because Collicot serves only elementary grades, there is no graduation rate to report. Chronic absenteeism data and figures on students with disabilities and English learners were not available in the data used here, so a parent who wants a full picture of student support services and attendance patterns would need to ask the school directly.
The school does not have charter status, and no Title I designation or magnet status was recorded. Free or reduced-price lunch counts were not reported, so the economic profile of the student body relative to the town’s overall high housing costs is not directly visible from the available figures. Milton’s district brief did not surface any recent policy changes or program shifts that would directly affect Collicot families, though the broader context of facility upgrades across the district suggests a physical environment in transition.
For a family considering Collicot, the concrete picture is this: a suburban elementary school in a town with high property values and good transit access to Boston, where academic performance on state tests has been consistently strong across multiple years. The student body is not especially diverse in racial or economic terms based on what is reported, but the school’s proficiency results place it among the higher-performing elementary options in its county. The absence of discipline data or special population counts means that questions about school climate, special education services, and English learner supports are best answered through a direct conversation with the school or a visit. The school is part of a district that has made renovating all its school buildings a clear priority, so the physical plant is likely newer than many comparable schools in older suburbs.
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