Summary:
Ware, Massachusetts is a small PK–12 district with three public schools — an elementary school, a middle school, and a combined junior/senior high school — serving about 1,082 students in total.
Ware's three schools are Stanley M Koziol Elementary School (PK–3, 396 students), Ware Middle School (4–6, 261 students), and Ware Junior/Senior High School (7–12, 425 students). Across the Ware district, proficiency generally trails the state. In 2025–2026, district ELA was 17.65 points below the state, math 21.03 points below, and science 6.29 points below. The elementary school is the strongest relative performer, leading Ware in both ELA (32.00) and math (29.73), though still below state levels (40.03 ELA, 41.11 math). The high school is the clearest concern: its all-grade math was 11.46 in 2025–2026 and 9.46 in 2024–2025, far below district and state, and it ranks 274th of 353 schools (22nd percentile, 1 star), drifting down from the 24th percentile in 2023–2024. Its science, however, rose to 43.94 — above the state's 40.98 — even as 10th-grade science (27.08) and Biology End-of-Course (6.67) lagged.
The middle school struggled most in ELA (19.17, below the district's 22.38) and saw science fall from 39.77 to 28.77. Notably, ELA declined at all three schools year over year. Graduation and dropout rates were 89.5% and 5.8% respectively. On resources, the middle school has the highest student-teacher ratio (14.3) and lowest listed per-student spending ($15,973 in 2020–2021), while the elementary school has the highest spending ($17,346) and the high school the lowest ratio (11.1). Grade-level bright spots include 5th-grade math (31.51), 10th-grade math (29.63), and 8th-grade science (43.94).
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