Summary:
Rochester has a single elementary school: Rochester Memorial, a PK–6 school with 473 students in the Rochester district. Because it is the only elementary school in the area, there are no other local schools to compare it against — the most useful benchmark is the Massachusetts state average, and the district results match the school's own results exactly for every reported test.
Rochester Memorial earns 3 stars and ranks 116 of 351 districts statewide, placing it in the 67th percentile. Its school-level rank is 289 of 899, also the 68th percentile, up from 350 of 916 (62nd percentile) in 2023–2024 — a steady three-year climb. In 2025–2026 it scored above the state average in every reported MCAS subject and grade. All-grade English Language Arts was 46.25 versus the state's 40.03, mathematics 53.13 versus 41.11, and science 54.84 versus 40.98.
Math and science are the clearest strengths. Third-grade math, at 59.68, was 17.49 percentage points above the state's 42.19 — the largest grade-level gap in the data. Fifth-grade science (54.84 versus 43.07) was also strong. The narrowest margin was fifth-grade ELA, at 39.34 versus the state's 38.15, only 1.19 points above average and the school's lowest ELA result. Note that proficiency slipped from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in every subject (ELA 50.19 to 46.25, math 53.90 to 53.13, science 60.00 to 54.84), even as the school's relative rank improved. The student-teacher ratio is 11.4, per-student spending is listed at $16,248 for 2020–2021, and the free/reduced-price lunch rate is not reported.
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