Summary:
ZIP code 01005 covers Barre, Massachusetts, and is served by the Quabbin district, which has three public schools spanning prekindergarten through 12th grade: one elementary, one middle, and one high school, with a combined enrollment of 1,457 students. Quabbin Regional High School is the largest at 545 students (37%), followed by Quabbin Regional Middle School at 510 (35%) and Ruggles Lane at 402 (28%). There is no alternative school in the area.
Quabbin Regional High School is the clearest bright spot: it is the only school in the ZIP at or above the top half of the state, ranking 177 of 353 (50th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026, and it has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.8. It also beats the district on graduation (86.4% vs. 83.7%) and dropout (9.3% vs. 10.6%), and its Biology End-of-Course proficiency of 43.48% tops the state's 37.68% — the only latest-year subject where a school here clearly exceeds the state. The middle school is the broadest concern, with all-grade ELA, math, and science proficiency around 25%, roughly 15–16 points below state, and 8th-grade civics at 22.42% vs. 39.77% statewide. Ruggles Lane is mixed: it spends the most per student ($18,251 in 2020–2021) but has the highest student-teacher ratio (15.5), and elementary math is a clear weak spot at 23.90% proficient vs. 41.11% statewide.
Recent trends move in opposite directions. From 2023–24 to 2025–26, the high school rose from the 44th to the 50th percentile, while the middle school fell from 47th to 28th and Ruggles Lane from 45th to 29th — the lower schools now track the district's weaker overall profile (ranked 248 of 351, 29th percentile, 1 star). Free/reduced-lunch data is unknown for all three schools, and spending figures are historical rather than current.
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