Summary:
Zip code 01462 covers Lunenburg, Massachusetts, where the Lunenburg district serves roughly 1,553 students across four schools: Lunenburg High (grades 9–12, 452 students), Lunenburg Middle School (6–8, 382), Turkey Hill Elementary School (3–5, 345), and Lunenburg Primary School (PK–2, 374). The district as a whole ranks 166 of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 53rd percentile with 3 stars — but that single district number hides real differences between the schools.
Lunenburg Middle School is the academic standout, at the 69th percentile and above the state in ELA (43.94 vs 40.03), math (45.11 vs 41.11), science (47.12 vs 40.98), and especially 8th-grade civics (53.33 vs 39.77). Lunenburg High posts strong completion numbers — a 97% graduation rate and 3% dropout rate — and stays above state in 10th-grade ELA and math, but 10th-grade science is a weak spot (34.02 vs 40.50) and its rank slipped from the 72nd percentile in 2023–2024 to the 56th. Turkey Hill Elementary School is a split picture: math is well above state (50.00 vs 41.11, including 5th-grade math at 53.27 vs 39.50), while all-grade ELA is below state (34.29 vs 40.03) and 5th-grade ELA is a clear concern at 20.75 vs 38.15. It also has the highest student-teacher ratio (18.1) and the lowest per-pupil spending ($14,554 in 2020–2021) of the four.
Lunenburg Primary School serves PK–2, so it has no MCAS scores or rank and cannot be compared academically here; its ratio is 15.9 and spending is $15,289. Two cautions for parents: free/reduced lunch data is blank for every school, so economic context can't be compared, and spending figures are from 2020–2021 and may not reflect current conditions.
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