Summary:
Spencer, Massachusetts is served by three public schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — all part of the Spencer-E Brookfield district, together enrolling about 1,151 students across grades K–12. The district as a whole ranks 279 of 351 in Massachusetts, placing it in the 21st percentile with a 1-star rating, so families should know up front that overall performance trails the state. One important gap: free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all three schools, so economic context is unknown rather than zero.
David Prouty High is the relative standout — the only 2-star school, ranked in the 42nd percentile, and the only school in the group with a tested result above the state average: 10th-grade ELA at 59.62% proficient versus 45.48% statewide. Its ELA rose 12.16 points year over year and math rose 8.83 points to 38.46%, though math remains 5.27 points below the state. Science is the concern, falling 13.74 points to 24.00%, and the 77.0% graduation rate with a 12.2% dropout rate signals completion concerns.
At the K–8 level, results are low across the board. Wire Village School is the largest school at 430 students, but sits in the bottom 15% of the state (15th percentile, 1 star); its all-grade ELA (24.29%) and math (22.03%) are just above district averages yet far below state. Knox Trail Middle School has the highest K–8 rank percentile at 22, but its trend is slipping (26 → 23 → 22), and its 5th-grade results are the lowest in the data set — 8.22% proficient in math and 10.96% in ELA. Its relative strengths are 7th-grade ELA (30.11%) and 8th-grade civics (21.50%, above the district's 20.54%), though science fell from 24.51% to 20.11%. David Prouty has the lowest student-teacher ratio (9.9) and highest per-student spending ($17,944, from 2020–2021), while Knox Trail has the highest ratio (13.6) and lowest spending ($15,556).
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