Summary:
The city of Groton, Massachusetts is served by three public schools spanning grades K–12, all within the Groton-Dunstable district: an elementary school, a middle school, and a high school, with a combined enrollment of 2,013 students. The district is highly ranked statewide, placing 34th of 351 districts (90th percentile, 5 stars), and each of the three schools earned 4 stars in its most recent rank history.
Groton Dunstable Regional, the high school (grades 9–12), is the academic anchor, ranking 45th of 353 schools (87th percentile) with a 97.5% graduation rate and a 0.0% dropout rate. Its 10th grade proficiency is 69.4% in English Language Arts, 75.0% in math, and 65.63% in science — all well above state figures. Florence Roche School (K–4) shows the biggest upward trajectory, climbing from 310th of 916 (66th percentile) to 151st of 899 (83rd percentile), with all-grade math at 64.68% versus the state's 41.11%. Groton Dunstable Regional Middle (5–8) is the largest school at 739 students and has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.8, with science all grades at 62.14% and 7th grade math at 66.67%, though its rank eased from 83rd to 79th percentile.
A few patterns stand out for families comparing these schools. Every reported proficiency figure here exceeds the matching state figure, at every grade level. Math generally outpaces ELA: the high school posts 75.0% in math versus 69.4% in ELA, the elementary school 64.68% versus 55.78%, and the middle school 54.97% versus 51.13%. ELA softened in the most recent year at the upper grades — the high school from 75.71% to 69.4%, the middle school from 59.61% to 51.13%. Spending and staffing differences are modest: $18,468 per student at the middle school, $17,906 at the high school, and $17,495 at the elementary school, with student-teacher ratios between 12.8 and 13.9. Free/reduced lunch percentages are blank for all three schools, so socioeconomic context cannot be examined from this data.
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