Leicester

The Leicester district serves about 1,249 students in three public schools — Leicester Elementary (K–4), Leicester Middle (5–8), and Leicester High (9–12). Enrollment is 467, 394, and 388 respectively. The district is ranked 260 of 351, in the 26th percentile with 1 star. No alternative schools are included, and free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all three schools, so it is unavailable. Across the district, ELA and math proficiency are below state benchmarks in all three schools.

Leicester High has the strongest current rank: 201 of 353, 43rd percentile, 2 stars. Its 2024–25 graduation rate is 93.1%, and some science results are above state: 10th-grade Science 44.30% vs 40.50%, and Biology End of Course 39.39% vs 37.68%. But Physics End of Course is very low at 6.98% vs 46.58% state. Leicester Middle has an above-state 8th-grade Civics result (43.40% vs 39.77%), yet its rank percentile slipped from 44 to 42 to 38 over three years, and 5th-grade ELA/math are far below state (15.79% vs 38.15%; 13.83% vs 39.50%). Leicester Elementary is the clearest improver: all-grade ELA rose +3.90 points and math +10.02 points, with rank percentile moving from 19 to 31, but 4th-grade math remains 16.94 points below state at 26.26% vs 43.20%.

The main pattern for parents is that bright spots are isolated. Above-state results appear in Middle 8th Civics, High 10th Science, and High Biology. Meanwhile, ELA and math remain below state at every school, and several grade-level weak spots are large. High school ELA declined from 45.83% to 36.47%. Middle school science dropped from 39.18% to 28.00%. Elementary improvement is uneven, with 4th-grade math still far behind. Spending and student-teacher ratios do not line up in a simple way, so they should not be used to draw conclusions, especially since spending is from 2020–21, ratios are from 2024–25, and free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable.