Summary:
Sterling, Massachusetts has two listed public schools serving grades K–8: Houghton Elementary for grades K–4 with 317 students, and Chocksett Middle School for grades 5–8 with 264 students — 581 students combined. There is no high school or alternative school in this list, so older students continue elsewhere. Both schools belong to the Wachusett district, which ranks 97th of 351 districts statewide at the 72nd percentile with 4 stars.
Both Sterling schools are currently 4-star schools at the 75th percentile, slightly above their district. Houghton Elementary ranks 229th of 899 elementary schools, and its strength is math: 58.87% proficient across all grades, above the district's 53.76% and the state's 41.11%. Third-grade math stands out at 69.49%, versus 57.14% in the district and 42.19% statewide. ELA is also solid at 52.85%, with 4th grade at 50.77%. Chocksett Middle School ranks 119th of 478 middle schools and shows the opposite pattern: ELA is excellent at 58.63% overall, with 7th grade at 70% and 8th grade at 63.93%, plus 8th-grade civics at 54.10%. Math, however, is 44.76% overall and only 29.51% in 8th grade, well below the district's 53.14% and the state's 41.67%.
Year over year, Houghton's math rose 4.77 points while ELA dipped slightly. Chocksett's ELA improved 2.82 points, but math fell 13.83 points, science fell 6.73 points, and civics slipped 2.57 points; its percentile dropped from 85 to 75. In 2020–2021, Houghton spent $18,309 per student versus $16,037 at Chocksett, though student-teacher ratios are nearly identical at 11.3 and 11.4. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for both schools, so socioeconomic context is unknown.
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