Summary:
Northborough is a K–8 district in Massachusetts with five schools: four elementary schools serving grades K–5 and one middle school serving grades 6–8, enrolling 1,567 students in total. The Northborough district is ranked 86th of 351 districts in the state, placing it at the 75th percentile with 4 stars. Every school in the district scores above the Massachusetts average in all-grade English Language Arts, math, and science, giving the area a strong academic baseline even at its lowest-performing schools.
Lincoln Street is the clearest standout, leading all five schools in ELA (57.53% proficient) and math (60.27%), both well above district and state, while improving its rank percentile from 73 in 2023–24 to 81 in 2025–26. Robert E. Melican Middle School leads in science (60.61%) and civics (62.58%), but its ELA is the weakest link at 44.94%, below the district and down 6.11 points from the prior year. Fannie E. Proctor is balanced, with ELA at 53.91% and math at 58.77%, and Marguerite E Peaslee gained 5.53 points in math while recovering to 4 stars.
The most consistent warning sign is science: it fell at every elementary school from 2024–25 to 2025–26, including drops of 15.98 points at Proctor and 14.72 points at Peaslee, while Melican's science rose 2.60 points. Marion E Zeh has the most polarized profile, with math at 60.16% but ELA at 45.97% and 5th grade ELA at only 27.91%. Notably, Lincoln Street posts the top ELA and math results despite having the lowest 2020–21 per-student spending and the highest student-teacher ratio in the group.
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