Webster

Webster, Massachusetts has three public schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12: Park Avenue Elementary (PK–4, 738 students), Webster Middle School (5–8, 566 students), and Bartlett High School (9–12, 408 students), for a total of 1,712 students. The Webster district is ranked 342 out of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 3rd percentile — with 0 district stars, so all three schools are working within a very low-performing district context.

Among the three, Park Avenue Elementary is the strongest relative academic performer, with the highest all-grade proficiency in both ELA (18.57%) and math (21.51%), the highest rank percentile (11th), and the only 1-star rating in 2025–2026; its 4th grade math score of 26.47% is the highest single assessment reported. Webster Middle School posts lower ELA (14.57%) and math (14.6%), but science is its bright spot at 18.8% all-grade, including 24.0% in 5th grade science. Bartlett High School has the most resources — the highest per-student spending ($19,861) and lowest student-teacher ratio (11.6:1) — yet the weakest current academics, with grade-10 ELA at 10.39%, science at 8.82%, and biology at 10.38%. Its graduation rate is under 80% and its dropout rate is just under 10%.

No school in the district meets the state proficiency rate on any reported MCAS assessment, and current-year gaps are often 20–35 percentage points. Trends are mostly discouraging: Park Avenue’s ELA fell from 27.45% to 18.57% and math from 28.52% to 21.51%, Webster Middle slipped from the 20th percentile to the 9th, and Bartlett High has stayed at the 8th–9th percentile with 0 stars every reported year. Free/reduced lunch percentages are blank in this data, so economic disadvantage is not reported here, and elementary science is not reported, so cross-school comparisons should be made carefully.