Best Public Schools in Leicester, MA

Leicester, Massachusetts is home to three public schools — Leicester Elementary (K–4, 467 students), Leicester Middle (5–8, 394 students), and Leicester High (9–12, 388 students) — serving 1,249 students in the Leicester district, which ranks 260th of 351 Massachusetts districts at the 26th percentile with 1 star. All three individual schools earned 2 stars in 2025–2026.

Leicester High posts the strongest 2025–2026 standing of the three — 201st of 353 schools, 43rd percentile — and its science results lead the way: 10th Grade Science is 44.30% proficient, above the district (43.75%) and state (40.50%), and Biology End of Course is 39.39%, above the state's 37.68%. Leicester Middle's clearest bright spot is 8th Grade Civics at 43.40%, above the district (42.99%) and state (39.77%), and up from 37.04% a year earlier. Leicester Elementary shows the best improvement: all-grade Math rose from 21.94% to 31.96% and ELA from 28.06% to 31.96%, lifting its percentile from 19th to 31st and its rating from 1 star to 2 stars.

Core ELA and Math remain below state averages at every level, with the widest gaps at Leicester Middle: ELA 24.47% vs the state's 40.03% and Math 23.14% vs 41.11%. The single most dramatic gap is Leicester High's Physics End of Course at 6.98% proficient, against a state figure of 46.58%. Even so, Leicester High reports a 93.1% graduation rate and 3.4% dropout rate. Per-student spending (2020–2021) is $16,201 at the elementary school, $14,467 at the middle school, and $14,827 at the high school, while student-teacher ratios run 13.8, 12.7, and 10.6 respectively. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not populated, so socioeconomic context is unavailable.