Niche has released its 2025 school district rankings. According to the announcement: "Niche’s rankings combine user input — ratings from current students, alumni and parents — with quantitative data from sources like the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate teachers, resources, facilities, extracurricular activities and more. This comprehensive approach assesses a wide array…

In June Sudbury Weekly reported on an initiative at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School to standardize course level designations across departments and make them consistent with the Common App for college applications. At the time, the high school had settled on three levels: college prep, honors and high honors. But there was more work to do… The…

On Tuesday, both the Sudbury Public Schools (SPS) School Committee and Lincoln-Sudbury (L-S) School Committee discussed possible letters to Town of Sudbury officials regarding the recently-reduced School Resource Officer (SRO) program. In the end, the committees opted to take different approaches. As previously reported, the SRO program has been temporarily and significantly reduced due to…

[CORRECTION: the original version of this story mentioned two units being converted to duplexes in the Pine Lakes neighborhood, consistent with earlier funding requests. The full project would convert four single family units to duplexes. The story has been updated accordingly.] An opponent of proposed affordable duplexes in the Pine Lakes neighborhood was spotted…

Construction of the Fairbank Community Center is in the final stages, with the exception of an upcoming renovation of the Atkinson Pool. But residents have been eager to start utilizing the new community center since its "soft opening" earlier this year. Some residents have voiced a desire to rent a room, and others wanted the…

The 2024 Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test results are in, and it's a mixed bag for Sudbury's students. The Boston Globe published their annual database of top-line results, and a story with the headline "2024 MCAS scores show Massachusetts falling further behind post-pandemic." Other headlines sounded the alarm about English and Language…

On September 17, the Sudbury Historical Commission continued ongoing discussions about the tercentenary markers along Sudbury’s roads. Questions have been raised about the historical accuracy of the language on the markers, as well as concerns that some of them may be offensive to Native people. Nearby Concord removed the signs in their community for similar reasons, and the Sudbury…

On Monday, September 16, the Sudbury Finance Committee discussed the financial aspects of a number of initiatives around Sudbury. Those include the schools HVAC project and recent conversations among the Sudbury Public Schools School Committee about possibly voting to terminate the memorandum of agreement (MOA) that established a Combined Facilities Department shared between the Town…