Summary:
ZIP code 01440 is Gardner, Massachusetts, where four schools serve roughly 2,532 students from prekindergarten through grade 12: Gardner Elementary School (PK–4, 1,087 students), Gardner Middle School (5–7, 514), Gardner High (8–12, 808), and Gardner Academy for Learning and Technology (9–12, 123). All four belong to the Gardner district, which ranks 326th of 351 districts statewide — the 7th percentile, 0 stars — and district MCAS proficiency runs roughly 20 percentage points below the state in ELA, Math, and Science.
Gardner High is the strongest relative performer here. It ranks 246th of 353 schools (30th percentile, 2 stars), has the highest graduation rate at 93.1% versus the district's 87.8%, and the lowest dropout rate at 3.4% versus 5.5%. It is also the only school in the data with a test result above the state: 2024–2025 Biology at 48.28% versus 39.02% statewide, while its grade 10 scores lead the ZIP code. Gardner Academy for Learning and Technology shows the most serious warning signs: a 72.3% graduation rate, a 12.3% dropout rate, the highest student-teacher ratio at 24.7, and the lowest per-student spending at $14,319 (2020–2021).
The elementary and middle schools struggle most in English language arts. Gardner Elementary School, the largest school with about 43% of students and the highest spending at $15,847 (2020–2021), ranks 797th of 899 (11th percentile, 1 star), with grade 4 ELA at 14.52% versus 37.43% statewide. Gardner Middle School fell from the 33rd percentile to the 14th percentile; its ELA was 16.36% against the state's 40.03%. Note that free/reduced lunch data is blank for all four schools, so economic context is unknown.
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