Summary:
ZIP code 01056 is Ludlow, Massachusetts, home to four public schools — two elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — serving roughly 2,210 students across grades PK through 12, all within the Ludlow district, which ranks 262 of 351 districts statewide (25th percentile, 1 star).
The standout is Ludlow Senior High, the only school here with 3 stars. It ranks 158 of 353 high schools (55th percentile), up from the 40th percentile with 2 stars in 2024–25, and its 10th grade ELA proficiency of 49.69% runs about 4.2 points above the state, while 10th grade science is essentially at the state level. It also reports an 89.8% graduation rate and a 5.1% dropout rate. At the other end, Harris Brook Elementary is the weakest assessed school — 724 of 899, 19th percentile, 1 star — with all-grade ELA at 22.09% (about 17.9 points below state), math at 27.36%, science at 20.28%, and declines in all three subjects from the prior year. Paul R Baird Middle sits between them: 306 of 478, 36th percentile, 2 stars, with science and math above district averages but ELA roughly 19.4 points below the state. East Street Elementary serves PK–1, so it has no MCAS or ranking data.
District-wide, all-grade proficiency trails the state in ELA (21.21% vs. 40.03%), math (29.83% vs. 41.11%), and science (28.57% vs. 40.98%), with the widest gaps in the elementary and middle grades — for example, 5th grade ELA at Harris Brook is 14.48% and 6th grade ELA at Baird is 11.52%, against 40.26% statewide. Staffing is nearly uniform (student/teacher ratios of 11.1, and 11.8 at East Street), and reported per-pupil spending is highest at Baird ($18,374) and East Street ($18,352) versus $17,104 at the high school; those spending figures date to 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported for any school here.
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