The cover of the September issue of Boston Magazine.
Of 125 public school districts within I-495, Lincoln-Sudbury is rated as 12th best in overall quality, according to a table in Boston Magazine.
To calculate the rankings, George Recck, director of the Math Resource Center at Babson College, compared each district’s data points to the overall average for all districts and then applied a percentage weight to the standardized data for each district to create an aggregate score. Characteristics such as smaller class size, lower student-to-teacher ratios, higher graduation rates, and higher rates of spending per pupil were considered more desirable.
For the purposes of the study, all of the K-12 public schools in Lincoln and Sudbury were viewed as a single school district. L-S ranked highly in MCAS/PARCC scores and especially in SAT scores, coming in at #11, #18 and #19 of the 125 districts for the math, reading and writing sections of the SAT respectively. However, the L-S district ranked rather low (#101) in average class size at 19.8.
Finishing ahead of Lincoln-Sudbury starting with #1 were Dover-Sherborn, Concord-Carlisle, Weston, Lexington, Wayland, Westford, Newton, Wellesley, Manchester-Essex, Harvard, and Sharon. The bottom five districts were Everett, Lynn, Brockton, Lawrence, and Chelsea.
“For the parameters selected, I think our aggregate scores look strong across the board and I don’t foresee significant changes for the next year,” said Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Superintendent/Principal Bella Wong. “I think our aggregate outcomes are very strong and continue to focus on ensuring success for all of our students.”