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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 01532

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At a glance

Schools

2,764

Students

Districts

Top rankedAlgonquin Regional High37^th of 353 Massachusetts high schools

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Biggest riser

Marguerite E Peaslee up 24 spots statewide this year

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Smallest classes

Robert E. Melican Middle School 10.7 students per teacher

SchoolDigger ratings

4★

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Summary:

ZIP code 01532 covers Northborough, Massachusetts, and contains six schools: four elementary schools (K-5), one middle school (6-8), and one high school (9-12), enrolling about 2,764 students in total. Algonquin Regional High alone accounts for 1,197 students (43% of the total), the four elementaries together enroll 1,022 (37%), and Robert E. Melican Middle School enrolls 545 (20%). The middle and elementary schools belong to the Northborough district, ranked 86th of 351 (4 stars), while the high school belongs to the Northboro-Southboro district, ranked 27th of 351 (5 stars). Every school here scores above the state average in every reported subject in 2025-2026.

Algonquin Regional High is the clear standout: a 98.3% graduation rate, a 0.7% dropout rate, and 10th-grade proficiency of 70.57 in ELA, 73.05 in math, and 67.47 in science, far above the state's 45.48, 43.73, and 40.50. Its rank has stayed in the top decile three years running. Robert E. Melican Middle School is a different story: science (60.61) and 8th-grade civics (62.58) beat the district, but its ELA (44.94) and math (52.35) fall below the district averages for those subjects.

Among the elementaries, Lincoln Street leads in all three subjects (ELA 57.53, math 60.27, science 58.33), ahead of Marguerite E Peaslee and Fannie E Proctor, while Marion E Zeh has the lowest ELA at 45.97; Zeh's 5th-grade ELA is just 27.91 against a district 42.71 and state 38.15. Science fell in all four elementary schools from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026, and the top-ranked elementary has rotated each year — Zeh, then Proctor, now Lincoln. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for every school, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed.

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Ranking:

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School													Students/Teachers											Ranking (2026)				Ranking (2025)				MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts (2026)								MCAS Next Generation Mathematics (2026)								MCAS Next Generation Science (2026)				MCAS Next Generation Biology (2026)	MCAS Next Generation Civics (2026)	Per Pupil Expenditures (2024)
Name	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	Enrollment	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients (2015)	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Average Standard Score (2026)	Statewide Rank (2026)	State Percentile (2026)	SchoolDigger Rating (2026)	Average Standard Score (2025)	Statewide Rank (2025)	State Percentile (2025)	Rank Change from Previous Year	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 3rd Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 4th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 5th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 6th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 7th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 8th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation English Language Arts All Grades	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 3rd Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 4th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 5th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 6th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 7th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 8th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Mathematics All Grades	MCAS Next Generation Science 5th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Science 8th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Science 10th Grade	MCAS Next Generation Science All Grades	MCAS Next Generation Biology End of Course	MCAS Next Generation Civics 8th Grade	Total
Marion E Zeh	Public	K-5	33 Howard Street	Northborough	01532	Worcester County	Northborough	No	No	No	Yes	(508) 351-7048	249	19	12.9	10.4%	156 (62.7%)	3 (1.2%)	34 (13.7%)	44 (17.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	12 (4.8%)	69.6	268^th of 899 public elementary schools	70.2%		77.4	212^th of 906 public elementary schools	76.6%	56	51.4	59.1	27.9					46.0	64.9	68.2	47.6					60.2	52.4			52.4			$21,075
Fannie E Proctor	Public	K-5	26 Jefferson Rd	Northborough	01532	Worcester County	Northborough	No	No	No	Yes	(508) 351-7040	238	20	12.0	14.5%	147 (61.8%)	9 (3.8%)	29 (12.2%)	38 (16.0%)	1 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	14 (5.9%)	76.6	208^th of 899 public elementary schools	76.9%		83.4	141^st of 906 public elementary schools	84.4%	67	57.9	52.8	51.2					53.9	56.8	61.1	58.5					58.8	53.7			53.7			$22,367
Lincoln Street	Public	K-5	76 Lincoln Street	Northborough	01532	Worcester County	Northborough	No	No	No	Yes	(508) 351-7030	268	20	13.0	16.0%	188 (70.1%)	6 (2.2%)	25 (9.3%)	34 (12.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	15 (5.6%)	79.9	170^th of 899 public elementary schools	81.1%		80.3	180^th of 906 public elementary schools	80.1%	10	61.4	64.3	50.0					57.5	72.7	59.5	51.7					60.3	58.3			58.3			$20,039
Marguerite E Peaslee	Public	K-5	31 Maple Street	Northborough	01532	Worcester County	Northborough	No	No	No	Yes	(508) 351-7035	267	22	12.2	7.4%	156 (58.4%)	4 (1.5%)	44 (16.5%)	35 (13.1%)	0 (0.0%)	4 (1.5%)	24 (9.0%)	70.5	260^th of 899 public elementary schools	71.1%		70.2	284^th of 906 public elementary schools	68.7%	24	61.0	46.3	45.8					50.4	43.9	57.4	58.3					53.9	54.2			54.2			$20,618
Robert E. Melican Middle School	Public	6-8	145 Lincoln Street	Northborough	01532	Worcester County	Northborough	No	No	No	Yes	(508) 351-7020	545	51	10.7	7.9%	362 (66.4%)	15 (2.8%)	64 (11.7%)	69 (12.7%)	2 (0.4%)	8 (1.5%)	25 (4.6%)	72.6	117^th of 478 public middle schools	75.5%		76.2	103^rd of 484 public middle schools	78.7%	14				46.3	39.1	49.7		44.9				52.7	45.6	59.4		52.4		60.6		60.6		62.6	$19,936
Algonquin Regional High	Public	9-12	79 Bartlett Street	Northborough	01532	Worcester County	Northboro-Southboro	No	No	No	Yes	(508) 351-7010	1,197	111	10.8	7.3%	802 (67.0%)	21 (1.8%)	114 (9.5%)	193 (16.1%)	1 (0.1%)	12 (1.0%)	51 (4.3%)	91.8	37^th of 353 public high schools	89.5%		92	36^th of 349 public high schools	89.7%	1							70.6								73.1				67.5		71.5		$24,176

Cities Near Zip Code 01532

City	Distance	# of Schools	Statewide Rank
Northborough	0.43 mi	6	70^th
Westborough	2.75 mi	10	25^th
Shrewsbury	2.87 mi	9	48^th
Marlborough	3.8 mi	9	285^th
Berlin	4.29 mi	1	81^st

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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