Schools in Zip Code 01082

ZIP code 01082 covers Ware, Massachusetts, where the Ware district serves roughly 1,082 students across three public schools: one elementary school serving grades PK–3, one middle school serving grades 4–6, and one junior/senior high school serving grades 7–12, with no alternative schools in the list. Stanley M Koziol Elementary School enrolls 396 students, Ware Middle School enrolls 261, and Ware Junior/Senior High School is the largest at 425. Student-teacher ratios are 13.4, 14.3, and 11.1 respectively, and per-student spending in 2020–2021 was highest at the elementary school ($17,346), lowest at the middle school ($15,973), and $16,730 at the high school.

Among the three, Stanley M Koziol Elementary School is the district’s academic leader, with 2025–2026 all-grade proficiency of 32% in English language arts and 29.73% in math — both above district levels. Ware Middle School performs comparatively well in math (24.69%, above the district’s 20.08%, with 5th-grade math at 31.51%) but has the lowest ELA results in the district at 19.17%, including just 15.91% in 6th-grade ELA. Ware Junior/Senior High School is a mixed picture: its science score of 43.94% is above the state’s 40.98%, driven by 8th-grade science at 43.94% versus 38.93% statewide, yet its all-grade math is only 11.46% and Biology End-of-Course proficiency is 6.67% against 37.68% statewide.

District-wide, Ware trails Massachusetts in all core subjects in 2025–2026: 22.38% versus 40.03% in ELA, 20.08% versus 41.11% in math — the largest gap — and 34.69% versus 40.98% in science. The high school has ranked 274 of 353 schools at the 22nd percentile with 1 star, a position stable across three years (22, 23, and 24), alongside an 89.5% graduation rate and 5.8% dropout rate in 2024–2025. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not provided, and spending figures come from 2020–2021 while test scores are more recent, so comparisons should be read cautiously.