In Massachusetts, 23.3% of Black students are proficient in math at the typical school — against 43.8% of White students. Within Springfield alone, the gap between the best and worst schools for Black children is 63 points. This tool helps you find the right one.
Search Massachusetts schools ›Share of students meeting proficient at the typical Massachusetts school. Groups are shown wherever Massachusetts reports them; a group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.
These figures come from MCAS 2025, measuring proficient in ELA & Math · Grades 3–8. Across 195 districts, 744 Massachusetts schools report enough results to be included.
At the typical Massachusetts school the picture is black students at 25.5%, hispanic students at 25.5%, white students at 44.7% and asian students at 59%. That is a 33.5-point spread between the highest and lowest group, inside the same schools, the same districts and the same state — which is what this tool exists to make visible.
Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School reaches 80.1% across 296 Black student results. Brooke Charter School reaches 69.4% across 1,067 — the largest Black student population of any high-performing school here.
Frank H Freedman reaches 62.5%. Springfield International Academy at Duggan, in the same district, reports 0%. Across 46 schools in one district, a child's address decides which end they land on.
21.8% of Black students are proficient, against 49.0% of White students, in a state routinely ranked first in the nation for education.
These are the schools where Black students most often meet proficient, among those with at least 25 Black student results reported. Every group's result is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.
| School | All | Black | Hispanic | White | Asian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benjamin Banneker Charter Public SchoolBenjamin Banneker Charter Public (District) Charter | 81.6% | 80.1% | 79.4% | — | — |
| Locke MiddleBillerica | 50.7% | 71.4% | 37.8% | 48% | 72.1% |
| Brooke Charter SchoolBrooke Charter School (District) Charter | 67.8% | 69.4% | 64.2% | 79.8% | 71.7% |
| Robert E. Melican Middle SchoolNorthborough | 52% | 67.9% | 24.8% | 49.6% | 78.8% |
| North Street Elementary SchoolGrafton | 50.8% | 67.6% | 25.4% | 47.4% | 64.1% |
| Pioneer Charter School of Science IIPioneer Charter School of Science II (District) Charter | 68.2% | 65.4% | 56.2% | 75.5% | 79.5% |
| Frank H FreedmanSpringfield | 42.6% | 62.5% | 39.3% | 30% | — |
| Medway MiddleMedway | 58.4% | 60% | 36% | 59.2% | 79.7% |
| Boston Latin SchoolBoston | 77.2% | 59.4% | 59.6% | 87.8% | 86.5% |
| Martin Luther King Jr.Cambridge | 80.4% | 59.4% | — | 84.6% | 86.4% |
Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.
The same measure at the other end of the range. In many of these schools every group is falling short, which points at the school rather than at the students in it.
| School | All | Black | Hispanic | White | Asian |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claremont AcademyWorcester | 10.6% | 0% | 8.7% | 13.6% | — |
| Springfield International Academy at JohnsonSpringfield | 0% | 0% | — | — | — |
| Gardner Middle SchoolGardner | 16.4% | 0% | 7.3% | 21.9% | — |
| Winter Hill CommunitySomerville | 17.9% | 2.1% | 7.8% | 37.7% | 28.6% |
| Emergence AcademySpringfield | 1.2% | 2.6% | 0% | 3.6% | — |
| BrightwoodSpringfield | 7.5% | 2.9% | 8.2% | — | — |
| Holyoke STEM AcademyHolyoke | 3.8% | 2.9% | 3.7% | 5.9% | — |
| Melvin H. King South End AcademyBoston | 1.5% | 3.1% | 0% | — | — |
| Wawecus Road SchoolWorcester | 16.3% | 3.6% | 13.9% | 25.8% | — |
| Clinton Middle SchoolClinton | 26.6% | 3.6% | 17.5% | 36% | — |
In Springfield, Frank H Freedman reports 62.5% of Black students meeting the standard. Springfield International Academy at Johnson, in the same district, reports 0%. That is a 62.5-point spread across 46 schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base — the clearest illustration of why address matters more than it should.
Districts with at least ten schools reporting Black student results, by school count. The percentage shown is the average across that district's schools for Black students.