Melrose Public Schools Earn High Marks In New National Ranking

MELROSE, MA — The Melrose Public Schools earned an overall grade of A in a new batch of nationwide rankings and report cards this week from the education platform Niche.

Niche shared its rankings on Tuesday, giving Melrose an A for academics, teachers, college prep, administration and sports and a B+ for clubs and activities. The district received a B for resources and facilities and a C+ for diversity and food to round out the overall A ranking.

Niche ranked Melrose as the 53rd best school district out of 219 in Massachusetts.

Niche awarded individual school-level scores as follows:

• Lincoln Elementary School: A
• Horace Mann Elementary School: A
• Winthrop Elementary School: A
• Roosevelt Elementary School: A-
• Melrose High School: A-
• Melrose Middle School: A-
• Hoover Elementary School: A-
• Early Childhood Center: B+

Outside of the Melrose Public Schools, Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, which serves students in Melrose, received a B+ ranking to place 11th out of 38 charter schools in the state.

Mystic Valley earned an A for diversity, an A- for academics and college prep, a B+ for sports and a B- for teachers. Clubs, activities, resources, facilities received a C- while the administration received a D to produce the total B+ ranking.

Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School received a C grade.

It earned an A for sports, an A- for diversity and a B for resources, facilities and food. The school received a B- for teachers, clubs and activities and a C for academics, college prep and administration.

Niche rankings this month classified 92,743 public schools, 30,112 private schools, and 11,820 school districts across the U.S.

In Massachusetts, top districts included the Weston Public Schools, the Hopkinton Public Schools and the Wellesley Public Schools.

The organization arrives at its grades and placements via analysis of a series of public data sets and reviews, as noted in a methodologies page on its website.

Niche said its rankings aim to provide families with quantitative and qualitative information to assess schools in their area or in areas they’re not yet familiar with.

See the full Niche rankings here.

Correction: An earlier version of this article said Melrose ranked 27th in Massachusetts. The district ranked 53rd statewide.