Summary:
Gardner, Massachusetts is a city served by four schools in this data set—one elementary school, one middle school, and two high schools—with a combined enrollment of 2,532 students across grades PK–12, all within the Gardner district, which ranks 326 of 351 districts statewide at the 7th percentile with 0 stars. Because that district ranking appears on every school record, it reflects the district overall rather than any single school.
Among the schools, Gardner High is the clearest relative standout: it holds the best current rank of any Gardner school (246 of 353, 30th percentile, 2 stars), a graduation rate of 93.1% versus the district's 87.8%, and a dropout rate of 3.4% versus 5.5%. Its 10th-grade results (ELA 32.26%, Math 31.15%, Science 27.83%) are notably stronger than its 8th-grade results, since the school serves grades 8–12. Gardner Elementary School is the largest school, with 1,087 students—about 43% of city enrollment—and its grade-level results vary sharply, from 28.8% in 3rd-grade ELA to 14.52% in 4th-grade ELA. Gardner Middle School shows the opposite pattern of its peers: all-grade Math is 20.41%, the highest among the three traditional schools, while all-grade ELA is 16.36%, the lowest ELA figure in the city.
Gardner Academy for Learning and Technology is the smallest school at 123 students but has a distinctly high-need profile: a student-teacher ratio of 24.7 (versus 14.9, 13.4, and 13.2 elsewhere), a graduation rate of 72.3%, and a dropout rate of 12.3%. Across the district, proficiency trails the state in every major subject—18.79% in ELA, 19.29% in Math, and 20.51% in Science against state rates of 40.03%, 41.11%, and 40.98%. Note that spending figures are from 2020–2021, and free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all four schools, so economic disadvantage cannot be analyzed here.
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