Marlborough

Schools in Marlborough serve about 4,533 students across six schools—four elementary, one middle, and one high school—within the Marlborough district, which is ranked 290th of 351 in Massachusetts at the 17th percentile with a 1-star rating.

Among the standouts, Marlborough High is the strongest by rank percentile: 40th percentile, 2 stars, with a 94.0% graduation rate versus the district’s 90.7% and a 3.2% dropout rate versus 4.7%. Its Biology EOC proficiency is 54.29%, above the district’s 43.75% and state’s 37.68%, but Physics EOC is only 16.47%, far below the state’s 46.58%. Goodnow Brothers Elementary School is the most balanced elementary school, with ELA 33.6%, math 29.13%, and science 31.78% at the 32nd percentile. Francis J Kane leads elementary science at 36.62% and is at the 31st percentile. Richer improved from the 10th to 22nd percentile, with ELA rising from 19.26% to 29.57% and science from 18.89% to 28.42%, though its math is 19.65%, below the district’s 23.9%. Charles Jaworek School has a 5th-grade ELA spike of 45.36% but remains 1 star. 1 LT Charles W. Whitcomb School is the main concern: 22nd percentile, 1 star, with ELA 24.86%, math 22.63%, science 14.34%—26.64 points below the state—and civics 20%, despite the lowest student-teacher ratio at 9.3.

Overall, elementary schools average above district but below state in ELA, math, and science: about ELA 31.46%, math 25.73%, and science 30.13%. Grade-level results swing widely—for example, one school’s 5th-grade ELA is 45.36% versus its 4th-grade ELA 19.44%, and another school’s 3rd-grade math is 29.51% versus its 5th-grade math 14.74%. Spending and class size do not show a simple relationship with outcomes: Marlborough High has the highest spending at $20,329, while Goodnow Brothers Elementary School has the lowest at $16,612 but strong elementary results. Science needs targeted attention, especially middle-school science at 1 LT Charles W. Whitcomb School and high-school physics at Marlborough High.