Summary:
Ayer, Massachusetts has two listed public schools — Page Hilltop Elementary School, serving grades PK–5, and Ayer Shirley Regional High School, serving grades 9–12 — both in the Ayer Shirley School District. Together they enroll 956 students, and no middle school appears in this Ayer list.
The high school is the current academic standout, ranking 84 of 353 schools statewide (76th percentile, 4 stars) and beating the state in every tested area: 10th grade ELA at 58.33% vs. 45.48% statewide, math at 45.12% vs. 43.73%, science at 55% vs. 40.5%, and Biology End of Course at 65.63% vs. 37.68% — the largest gaps in this data. It also reports a 95.9% graduation rate and a 3.3% dropout rate. Page Hilltop ranks 362 of 899 (60th percentile, 3 stars), up from the 46th percentile and 2 stars in 2024–2025, and its all-grade results also exceed the state in ELA (44.59% vs. 40.03%), math (48.48% vs. 41.11%), and science (44.23% vs. 40.98%).
Both schools improved their rankings year over year, and math is a bright spot: elementary math rose 9.03 points and 10th grade math rose 5.56 points, moving above state. Two cautions stand out: Page Hilltop's science slipped from 50.65% to 44.23%, now slightly below the district's 45.23%, and its 5th grade ELA (34.62%) falls below the state's 38.15%, even though 3rd and 4th grade ELA are above state. The high school spends $19,721 per student versus $16,740, with a lower student-teacher ratio (11.4 vs. 12.5). The district's shared rank — 158 of 351, 55th percentile, 3 stars — understates the high school's stronger individual standing.
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