Summary:
Hudson, Massachusetts has five public schools — three elementary schools serving PK–4, one middle school serving grades 5–7, and one high school serving grades 8–12 — enrolling 2,322 students in all, and every school belongs to the Hudson district, which ranks 236th of 351 in Massachusetts (33rd percentile, 2 stars).
Standouts: Hudson High ranks 122nd of 353 (65th percentile, 3 stars) and climbed from the 47th to the 65th percentile over three years; its 10th-grade ELA (50.77), math (45.31), science (52.14), and Biology (44.27) all beat state averages, though its 8th-grade and civics results fall below state. Among the elementary schools, Forest Avenue Elementary (404th of 899, 3 stars) and Mulready Elementary (442nd, 3 stars) are strongest, each above state in ELA and math. Forest posts 50.82 in 3rd-grade ELA and 50.94 in 4th-grade math; Mulready's 4th-grade ELA is 55.26 and 4th-grade math 63.16, the best math result in the dataset. C A Farley (765th of 899, 15th percentile, 1 star) and David J. Quinn Middle School (350th of 478, 27th percentile, 1 star) are the two lowest-rated.
Watch list: ELA dropped in every Hudson school in 2025–26 — district ELA fell from 37.51 to 28.03 while the state only slipped from 41.53 to 40.03 — and Farley's all-grade ELA fell more than 21 points, from 42.94 to 21.60. Math is the district's biggest gap (28.18 vs state 41.11), with only Forest and Mulready above state. Science is a bright spot: district science rose from 31.93 to 38.16, Quinn's science score of 46.15 beats state, and Hudson High's science results are strong. Spending and class size don't explain outcomes: Mulready spends the most ($21,596 per student, 8.8 ratio), yet Forest gets stronger results with $18,898 and 9.8, while Farley spends $19,829 with the highest ratio (10.5) and the weakest results. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all five schools, so poverty context can't be analyzed here.
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