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.
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