Shrewsbury

Shrewsbury is a high-performing Massachusetts district of 8 schools — 5 elementary schools serving grades K–4, two middle schools split between grades 5–6 and 7–8, and one high school serving grades 9–12 — educating about 5,763 students in total, and it ranks 41 of 351 statewide, at the 88th percentile with 4 stars. Encouragingly, in 2025–26 every single school's all-grade ELA and Math scores came in above the state averages, so even the lowest-ranked elementary here outperforms the typical Massachusetts school.

Oak Middle School is the middle-school standout, ranked 53 of 478 (89th percentile, 4 stars) and beating the district and state in ELA, Math, Science, and Civics, with a particularly strong 8th-grade Math score of 75.00. Among elementaries, Spring Street School ranks highest at 86 of 899 (90th percentile, 5 stars) and posts the top all-grade Math score of 76.42, while Walter J. Paton School has the strongest combined ELA/Math results and the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.0. Floral Street School is the most balanced, and Shrewsbury High School is strong overall with a 95.9% graduation rate and excellent Biology results, though Physics, at 41.88, falls below the state's 46.58.

Sherwood Middle School trails the district in all-grade ELA, Math, and Science, and Calvin Coolidge School is the lowest-ranked elementary at 259 of 899 (71st percentile). Major Howard W. Beal School has the highest per-student spending but a middling rank. Rank trends are mixed: Paton and Beal improved, while Coolidge and the high school slipped slightly. Note that free/reduced lunch data is blank for every school, and spending figures are from 2020–2021.