Summary:
Leicester has just one elementary school: Leicester Elementary, located at 170 Paxton Street and serving grades K–4 with 467 students. It is part of the Leicester district, which is ranked 260th of 351 in Massachusetts, placing it at the 26th percentile with 1 star. Because there is only one elementary school here, the useful comparisons are to the district, to the state, and across school years rather than between schools.
The clearest story is improvement. In 2025–2026, Leicester Elementary ranked 621 of 899 schools, at the 31st percentile with 2 stars — up from 734 of 906, at the 19th percentile with 1 star, in 2024–2025. All-grade mathematics proficiency rose from 21.94% to 31.96%, a gain of 10.02 percentage points, while ELA moved from 28.06% to 31.96%, up 3.90 points. Both subjects now sit above the Leicester district averages — math by 6.54 points and ELA by 5.33 points — after math had trailed the district the year before. Both still trail the Massachusetts averages, by 9.15 points in math and 8.07 points in ELA, and the school remains in the lower third of the state.
Grade-level results show a split: 3rd-grade math was 37.89%, above the district and only 4.30 points below the state, while 4th-grade math was 26.26%, slightly below the district and 16.94 points below the state — the weakest relative result. Third grade also outpaced fourth grade in ELA. The student–teacher ratio was 13.8 in 2024–2025, and per-student spending was $16,201 in 2020–2021. Free/reduced-lunch information is not reported in this data, so economic context cannot be assessed.
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