Rochester

Rochester has just one public school in this data set — Rochester Memorial, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 473 students — so the district-level numbers for Rochester mirror the school-level numbers exactly, and there are no middle or high school results to compare within the area.

The most important thing for parents to know is that Rochester Memorial scored above the Massachusetts average in every tested subject and grade level shown for 2025–2026. Math proficiency was 53.13% versus 41.11% statewide (+12.02 points), science was 54.84% versus 40.98% (+13.86 points), and English Language Arts was 46.25% versus 40.03% (+6.22 points). Math and science are the clearest strengths. Grade 3 math was the single best grade-level result at 59.68%, a full 17.49 points above the state's 42.19%, while grade 5 ELA had the narrowest margin at 39.34% versus 38.15% — still above state, but the weakest relative result shown. Science is essentially a grade 5 measure here, since the all-grades science figure matches the 5th-grade figure exactly.

Looking at trends, the school's state rank has climbed steadily, from 350th of 916 three years ago to 296th of 906 and then 289th of 899, with its percentile rising from 62 to 67 to 68 and a 3-star rating each year. Interestingly, that improvement came even as ELA and science proficiency dipped from the prior year (ELA from 50.19% to 46.25%, science from 60.00% to 54.84%), while math held nearly steady. The student-teacher ratio is 11.4, and per-student spending is listed at $16,248, though only for 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch information is unavailable, so economic context cannot be assessed, and no resource trends can be tracked from this data.