Summary:
Winchester is a seven-school district serving roughly 4,391 students across five elementary schools (Ambrose, Lincoln, Lynch, Muraco, and Vinson-Owen), one middle school (McCall Middle), and one high school (Winchester High School). The Winchester district ranks #7 of 351 Massachusetts districts — the 98th percentile, with 5 stars — and all seven schools earn 5 stars in 2025–2026.
Two schools stand out most. Ambrose Elementary ranks #4 of 899 elementary schools statewide, at the 100th percentile, and leads Winchester's elementaries in all-grade ELA (77.30%) and math (85.64%), with math results remarkably even across grades 3, 4, and 5. Winchester High School ranks #8 of 353 high schools, posting 10th-grade ELA at 84.47%, math at 85.09%, and science at 78.39% — roughly double the state's 45.48%, 43.73%, and 40.50%. It also graduates 97.5% of students, with a 1.6% dropout rate. Among elementaries, science varies far more than ELA or math: Lincoln Elementary leads at 86.44% and Muraco Elementary is at 84.44%, while Lynch Elementary sits at 64.00%, below the district's 75.23%.
Rankings are strong throughout: Vinson-Owen Elementary is #30 of 899 (97th percentile), Lynch #48, Muraco #45, Lincoln #34, and McCall Middle #27 of 478 middle schools (94th percentile). Most schools improved over the past three years, though McCall slipped from #16 to #27. Per-student spending ranges from $14,970 to $18,931 and student/teacher ratios from 10.7 to 14.8, with no simple relationship between spending and results. Free/reduced lunch figures are blank for every school, so they cannot be analyzed and should not be read as 0%.
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