Summary:
Zip code 01520 is served by five public schools in the Wachusett district — three elementary schools (Dawson, Leroy E. Mayo, and Davis Hill Elementary, all K–5), one middle school (Mountview Middle, grades 6–8), and one high school (Wachusett Regional High, grades 9–12) — enrolling 3,942 students in total. The high school is the largest at 1,779 students (about 45% of the total), followed by Mountview at 773, while the three elementary schools together enroll 1,390. All five schools earned 4 stars in 2025–26, a positive signal given that three of the five were 3-star or lower in 2023–24.
Mountview Middle is the highest-ranked school in the group at 91st of 478 (81st percentile), and it has been 4-star all three years; its 6th grade math score of 76.28% is the highest math figure in this data set, though 7th grade ELA (39.55%) trails the district. Dawson was the top elementary school in 2024–25 (89th percentile) but slipped to the 78th percentile in 2025–26. Leroy E. Mayo shows the clearest improvement, rising from the 61st to the 68th to the 74th percentile and moving from 3 to 4 stars. Davis Hill Elementary has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 11.3.
Wachusett Regional High posts a 96.0% graduation rate and 1.9% dropout rate, both better than the district, plus 10th grade math at 66.67% versus the state's 43.73%. Biology is the clear exception, at 27.27% for 2025–26 compared with the state's 37.68%. Math is a district-wide strength across every school, while science is more uneven. Notably, resources do not map neatly to results: Mountview has the lowest per-student spending ($12,986) and highest student-teacher ratio (14.8) yet the strongest rank. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for every school, so it cannot be used for economic comparisons and should not be read as 0%.
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