Schools in Zip Code 01069

ZIP code 01069 in Palmer, Massachusetts has three schools serving about 1,753 students: Old Mill Pond (grades PK–6, 677 students), Pathfinder Vocational Technical (grades 9–12, 660 students), and Palmer High (grades 7–12, 416 students), with no standalone middle school, so middle grades are split between an elementary school and a high school. Old Mill Pond and Palmer High belong to the Palmer district, while Pathfinder belongs to the separate Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical district.

Pathfinder is the momentum story: it is the only school here with a 2-star latest rank (215 of 353, 39th percentile), and it improved in every comparable 10th-grade subject year over year — ELA 31.55 to 41.14, math 25.60 to 35.48, science 22.73 to 28.38, and biology 22.22 to 27.45. Its 10th-grade ELA score of 41.14 is the closest any local high school comes to the state average of 45.48, only 4.34 points below, and its 10th-grade math (35.48) ties Palmer High for the best local result. Old Mill Pond is the only school in the group with a latest metric above state: Science All Grades and 5th grade both at 45.71, versus 40.98 and 43.07 statewide, a 15.55-point jump from 30.16 a year earlier. Its ELA (22.67) and math (27.41) remain well below state.

Palmer High has the strongest completion numbers — a 96.1% graduation rate and a 0.0% dropout rate — and comparatively solid math (7th grade at 35.71, just 1.77 points below state). But 10th-grade science is 12.00 versus 40.50 statewide, 28.50 points below, and its ELA, science, and civics scores all declined year over year. Overall, most test scores in this area fall below state averages; the exceptions are Old Mill Pond's science results.