Summary:
Stow, Massachusetts has two listed public schools — Center School, an elementary school serving grades PK–5 with 485 students, and Hale, a middle school serving grades 6–8 with 247 students — for a combined listed enrollment of 732. Both belong to the Nashoba district, which ranks 69 of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 80th percentile with 4 stars. There is no high school or alternative school in this Stow list. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for both schools, so economic-disadvantage comparisons cannot be made; spending figures are from 2020–2021 and student-teacher ratios from 2024–2025.
Hale is the standout. It ranked 68 of 478 in 2025–2026, at the 86th percentile with 4 stars, after ranking 46 of 484 (90th percentile, 5 stars) in 2024–2025 and 53 of 493 (89th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024. Hale beat both the Nashoba district and Massachusetts in every reported all-grade subject in 2025–2026, with 59.73% ELA, 63.96% math, 63.08% science, and 60.00% civics (civics is reported for 8th grade only). Center School is solid but more mixed: consistently 4-star rated and ranked 220 of 899 in 2025–2026, at the 76th percentile. Center beats the state in every reported all-grade subject, but does not consistently beat the district, especially in science.
Science is the clearest gap between the two schools, at 63.08% for Hale versus 50.68% for Center in 2025–2026, a 12.40-point difference, and 15.03 points the year before. Yet spending is nearly identical — $19,183 per student at Center and $19,329 at Hale, only $146 (about 0.8%) apart — while Hale has the lower student-teacher ratio, 11.0 versus 12.6. Center’s strongest results are in 4th grade (62.07% ELA, 67.44% math), while its 5th grade trails the district in all three tested subjects but stays above the state. Hale’s best grade-level results are 7th-grade math (69.05%) and 8th-grade ELA (68.75%); its scores slipped from an exceptional 2024–2025 but remained above district and state.
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