Freetown Elementary School opened in 1950 and serves grammar school students from the town of Freetown, Massachusetts. It educates around 546 students in grades PK-4 as part of the Freetown & Lakeville Public Schools.As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 542 students and 34.7 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 15.6. 96% of students are Caucasian.AcademicsIn the statewide Spring 2007 MCAS test for Grade 3 a total of 53 percent of students achieved proficiency in reading , with another 49 percent in need of improvement. A total of 56 percent were proficient in mathematics and 44 were found in need of improvement. For Grade 4, the test showed 44 percent were proficient in "English language arts" and 56 percent were in need of improvement mathematics results showed 40 percent proficient, 60 percent in need of improvement.FacilitiesThe Ted Just Memorial Field, a baseball field, was constructed on the front yard facing Bullock Road in memory of a fourth grade teacher who died in 1993.Lack of parking spaces remains a problem at the school, especially for public meetings in the evening and during preschool drop-off and pick-up times. One of the school's parking lots is on Memorial Drive; a smaller one is on Bullock Road. Some parents have parked off of school property and crossed busy streets with their children when dropping them off or picking them up.HistoryThe town operated between eight and one dozen small school districts throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, and well into the 20th century. These schoolhouses were typically of one or two rooms, were heated by woodstoves, and featured outhouses as their only form of plumbing. As part of the town's post-war planning, it was decided to construct a centrally-located elementary school for all the town's students.