Summary:
Zip code 01368 has just one public school: Royalston Community School, an elementary school serving grades PK–6 with 152 students. It is part of the Athol-Royalston district. The area summary lists 1 elementary school, 0 middle schools, 0 high schools, and 0 alternative schools, so families here have no local middle or high school to compare against within the same zip code. There is also no other school in 01368 to measure this one against, making district and state figures the most useful benchmarks.
Royalston Community School outperforms its district in every all-grade subject reported, and science is its clear strength. In 2025–2026, all-grade science proficiency is 50%, compared with 16.82% in the district and 40.98% statewide; in 2024–2025 it was 47.37% at the school, 15.53% in the district, and 41.51% statewide. Science is the only subject where the school clearly exceeds the state average. ELA and math remain below state levels: in 2025–2026, ELA is 27.14% versus the state's 40.03%, and math is 30% versus 41.11%. In rank terms, the school sits at 594 of 899 schools, the 34th percentile with 2 stars, while the district is 316 of 351, the 10th percentile with 1 star — the school is a relative bright spot inside a low-ranked district.
Grade-level results vary widely, which matters because the school is small. Some cohorts are strong: 4th-grade math is 47.62%, above the state's 43.20%, and 6th-grade ELA is 43.75%, above the state's 40.26%. Others are very low: 3rd-grade math is 5.88% and 5th-grade ELA is 12.50%. The school held 2 stars across three years, with percentile moving from 38 to 31 to 34. The free/reduced-lunch percentage for 2024–2025 is not reported, so it is unknown rather than zero, which limits how confidently results can be interpreted. The 12.3 student-teacher ratio (2024–2025) and $17,390 per-student spending (2020–2021) are descriptive only, with no district or state comparators provided.
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