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Best Public Schools in Zip Code 01545


At a glance
8
Schools
5,763
Students
1
5-star school
Top rankedOak Middle School53rd of 478 Massachusetts middle schools
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Biggest riser
Spring Street School up 65 spots statewide this year
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Smallest classes
Walter J. Paton School 12 students per teacher
SchoolDigger ratings
5★
4★
1 school without a SchoolDigger rating (too few tested students)
Summary:

ZIP code 01545 covers 8 schools serving Shrewsbury, Massachusetts — five elementary schools (K–4), two middle schools (Sherwood for grades 5–6 and Oak for grades 7–8), and one high school — all part of the Shrewsbury district, which ranks 41 of 351 statewide in the 88th percentile with 4 stars, and enrolls 5,763 students in total.

Among the elementary schools, Walter J. Paton School posts the highest All Grades ELA (66.09%) and 3rd grade ELA and math (85.96% each), with the lowest student-teacher ratio at 12.0. Spring Street School leads elementary math at 76.42% and earns 5 stars at the 90th percentile, while Floral Street School is the most balanced, above district in both ELA (60.95%) and math (70.95%). Calvin Coolidge School trails the others, with ELA at 48.39% and 3rd grade ELA at 42.62%, though still above state. At the middle level, Oak Middle School beats district and state in every reported subject, while Sherwood Middle School trails district all-grade aggregates but edges past district same-grade scores.

Shrewsbury High School has a 95.9% graduation rate, a 1.1% dropout rate, and 88.19% Biology proficiency, but Physics (41.88%) is below the state and 10th grade Science fell from 74.83% to 65.31%. Rank trends improved at Paton, Beal, Floral Street, and Spring Street, while Coolidge and the high school slipped. Notably, spending and class size show no simple tie to results: Oak has the lowest reported 2020–21 per-student spending ($13,337) yet ranks among the strongest, and Beal spends the most ($17,770) with mixed ELA outcomes.

Ranking:
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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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