Summary:
Ware, Massachusetts has just one elementary school serving the city: Stanley M Koziol Elementary School, located at 4 Gould Rd. It is a PK–3 school with 396 students, a 13.4 student/teacher ratio (2024–2025), and per-student spending of $17,346 (2020–2021). Because it is the only elementary school in the city, there are no within-city comparisons to make; the useful comparisons are to the Ware district and to Massachusetts statewide averages. The free/reduced lunch figure is not reported, so it is unknown.
On the 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, the school outperformed the Ware district in all-grades ELA (32% vs. 22.38%) and all-grades mathematics (29.73% vs. 20.08%), and it was slightly ahead in 3rd-grade mathematics (29.73% vs. 28.57%). Third-grade ELA was essentially even with the district (32% vs. 32.05%). At the same time, it trailed the state in every reported assessment, from 8.03 points in all-grades ELA to 12.46 points in 3rd-grade mathematics. In 2024–2025, all-grades ELA was 40.28%, just 1.25 points below the state's 41.53% — the closest the school came to statewide results.
The most striking change year over year is ELA: proficiency fell 8.28 points, from 40.28% to 32%, a steeper decline than either the district (6.86 points) or the state (1.50 points). Mathematics was steadier, edging up 0.56 points while the district fell 3.08 points. Older rank history from the mid-2000s shows the school rated 2 stars at the 31st to 36th percentile among reported Massachusetts elementary schools, with a mild downward drift; no current statewide rank is provided, so it is unclear whether that pattern still holds.
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