Ayer Shirley School District

The Ayer Shirley School District in Massachusetts serves about 1,723 students across four schools — two elementary schools (PK–5 and K–5), one middle school (6–8), and one high school (9–12) — with no alternative school reported, so students move through a single PK–12 pipeline. District-wide, it ranks 158th of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 55th percentile with 3 stars.

The standout is Ayer Shirley Regional High School, which ranks 84th of 353 high schools (76th percentile, 4 stars) and reports a 95.9% graduation rate and a 3.3% dropout rate. Its 10th grade ELA (58.33%), science (55.00%), and Biology end-of-course (65.63%) results are all well above the state, and math climbed from below the state's 44.60% to 45.12%, now above it. Among elementary schools, Page Hilltop Elementary School is stronger: 60th percentile with 3 stars, beating district and state in all-grade ELA (44.59%) and math (48.48%), up sharply from 2024–2025. Ayer Shirley Regional Middle School sits at the 62nd percentile with 3 stars, with science (47.20%) above district and state but math (38.64%) below both. Lura A. White Elementary School ranks lowest at the 41st percentile with 2 stars, and its all-grade ELA (31.72%) and math (38.17%) trail district and state.

The clearest pattern is the elementary split: Page Hilltop improved from the 46th to the 60th percentile, while Lura A. White declined from the 54th to the 41st across recent years. Lura A. White's 4th grade is a notable outlier — ELA 15.38% and math 30.77%, far below the state. Spending does not map neatly onto results: Lura A. White spent $19,027 per student versus Page Hilltop's $16,740, and student-teacher ratios are similar district-wide (11.4 to 12.5). Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for every school here, so socioeconomic context is unavailable and should not be inferred.