Summary:
ZIP code 01463 covers Pepperell, MA, and contains one elementary school: Varnum Brook, which serves grades K–4. Varnum Brook is the only elementary school in the ZIP, so there are no within-ZIP peer comparisons. It enrolls 606 students and is part of the North Middlesex district. The school has a 14:1 student-teacher ratio (2024–2025) and per-pupil spending of $16,078 (2020–2021), though those figures come from different years and serve as background context.
Varnum Brook's clearest relative strength is math. In 2024–2025, all-grade math proficiency was 50.98% at the school, compared with 36.40% in the district and 40.74% statewide. In 2025–2026, math remained above both: 45.99% at the school, 35.59% in the district, and 41.11% statewide. ELA is more mixed. The school beat the district in ELA in both years, but its all-grade ELA score fell from 44.49% in 2024–2025 to 39.24% in 2025–2026. That pushed it slightly below the state average in 2025–2026, after it had been above the state in 2024–2025. Varnum Brook has a 3-star rating and a latest statewide rank of 449 of 899, or the 50th percentile. That is above the district's listed 35th percentile rank, though the school dropped from the 60th percentile in 2023–2024 and 2024–2025.
Grade-level results in 2025–2026 show uneven performance. Fourth grade math was the strongest relative area: 47.37% proficient, above the district and 4.17 points above the state. Third grade ELA was below both the district and the state, and third grade math was above the state but below the district. Across all grades and both reported years, Varnum Brook outperformed the North Middlesex district in ELA and math. The largest gap was in 2024–2025 math, where the school exceeded the district by 14.58 percentage points. The free/reduced lunch percentage is not available in the data, so it should not be read as zero. Without that figure, it is harder to assess how socioeconomic factors may relate to performance.
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