Summary:
Paxton, Massachusetts has just one public school in this data set: Paxton Center, a school classified as Elementary but serving grades K–8, with 448 students enrolled at 19 West Street. It belongs to the Wachusett district. Because Paxton Center is the only school listed for the city, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the meaningful benchmarks are the Wachusett district and Massachusetts state averages.
Paxton Center generally lands above the state but below its own district. In 2025–2026 all-grades MCAS, the school scored 48.96% in mathematics (+7.85 points above state), 44.44% in science (+3.46 above state), and 41.18% in English language arts (+1.15 above state), yet trailed Wachusett in all three. Mathematics is the strongest broad subject: 2024–2025 all-grades math was 53.82%, 13.08 points above state, and in 2025–2026 grades 3 (58.93%) and 4 (57.89%) were above both district and state. Science is the most uneven area — 2024–2025 all-grades science (60.19%) beat both district and state, but within 2025–2026, Grade 5 science (57.14%) and Grade 8 science (29.27%) differ by 27.87 points.
English language arts is a relative weak spot, with Grade 7 at 33.33% and Grade 6 at 37.50%, both below district and state. Grade 8 civics (39.02%) sits near the state but 18.45 points below Wachusett. On rankings, Paxton Center has held 3 stars for three straight years, peaking at 301 of 906 (67th percentile) in 2024–2025 and sitting at 62nd percentile in the two surrounding years; the district is rated 4 stars and 72nd percentile. The student-teacher ratio is 12.7, per-student spending was $13,904 in 2020–2021, and the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported.
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