Summary:
Winchester, Massachusetts is served by 7 public schools — 5 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high school — all part of the Winchester district, which ranks #7 of 351 Massachusetts districts at the 98th percentile with a 5-star rating. Enrollment totals 4,391 students: 1,951 across the elementary schools, 1,036 at McCall Middle, and 1,404 at Winchester High School. What stands out most is consistency: all seven schools hold 5-star ratings, and even the lowest-ranked school sits at the 94th percentile statewide.
Ambrose Elementary is the strongest individual school, ranking #4 of 899 elementary schools at the 100th percentile, with the city's top elementary ELA (77.30) and highest math score (85.64). Winchester High School ranks #8 of 353 high schools and pairs elite scores (ELA 84.47, math 85.09, science 78.39, biology 81.79) with a 97.5% graduation rate and a 1.6% dropout rate. Among the rest, Vinson-Owen Elementary (#30), Lincoln Elementary (#34), Muraco Elementary (#45), and Lynch Elementary (#48) all rank in the top 5% of elementary schools, while McCall Middle ranks #27 of 478 middle schools.
Every school's test scores sit well above state benchmarks. Elementary science is a particular strength: Lincoln posts the city's highest science score (86.44), followed by Ambrose (85.45) and Muraco (84.44), with Lynch's 64.00 the lowest in the city but still above state. Grade-level results vary within schools — Lynch's 3rd-grade ELA of 89.55 is the highest in the data, while its 5th-grade ELA is 60.00. Per-student spending in 2020–2021 ranged from $14,970 at Lincoln to $18,931 at Ambrose, and student-teacher ratios ran from 10.7 to a high of 14.8 at the high school, yet these differences show no simple link to outcomes. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not reported here, so income-related performance gaps cannot be examined.
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