Summary:
Zip code 01364 covers Orange, MA and includes two schools serving roughly 1,003 students across the full PK–12 pipeline: Fisher Hill School (elementary, grades PK–6, enrollment 494) and Ralph C Mahar Regional (high school, grades 7–12, enrollment 509). There is no middle school or alternative school listed, because Mahar absorbs grades 7–8 itself. Families should know that both schools sit in districts ranked near the bottom statewide: the Ralph C Mahar district is at the 12th percentile (1 star) and the Orange district is at the 7th percentile (0 stars).
Neither school performs at state averages in most subjects, but each has a relative bright spot. Fisher Hill's strongest result is science: 37.74% proficiency in All Grades Science versus a state rate of 40.98%, only about 3.2 points below state. Its 5th-grade science score of 37.74% is likewise just over 5 points behind the state's 43.07%. By contrast, its ELA (17.19% vs. 40.03% state) and math (23.14% vs. 41.11% state) lag far behind, with a clear decline in upper elementary ELA, from 30.77% in 3rd grade down to 13.04% in 6th. At Mahar, the 8th-grade cohort is comparatively stronger — 8th-grade science is 34.55% versus 38.93% state, and 8th-grade math 31.43% versus 41.67% — while high-school results fall much further behind, including 10th-grade science at 8.20% versus 40.50% state. Mahar also has the better student-teacher ratio (9 versus Fisher Hill's 12.5), and its graduation rate (83.3%) is slightly above the district's 80.7%, though its dropout rate (12.8%) is also slightly above the district's 12.0%.
Both schools improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in every reported all-grade subject. Mahar gained 4.65 points in ELA, 2.93 in math, 13.50 in science, and 8.37 in civics; Fisher Hill gained 1.72 in ELA, 4.30 in math, and 6.75 in science — still below state overall. Note that free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for both schools, so economic context is unknown and should not be read as zero.
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