Summary:
ZIP code 01545 is served by a single public high school: Shrewsbury High School, which enrolls 1,891 students in grades 9–12 at 75 Cypress Avenue in Shrewsbury, MA. It belongs to the Shrewsbury district, which ranks 41st of 351 Massachusetts districts in this record — the 88th percentile, with 4 stars. Because there is only one high school here, there is no local school-to-school comparison to make; everything below describes this school alone.
Academically, the school performs well above the state in most subjects. In 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation results, 10th-grade Math proficiency was 73.33% versus 43.73% statewide, ELA was 68.66% versus 45.48%, and 10th-grade Science was 65.31% versus 40.50%. Biology End of Course is the standout at 88.19% proficient, more than double the state's 37.68%. Physics is the clear weak spot: 41.88% proficient, below the state's 46.58%, and it was also below state in 2024–2025 (41.70% vs. 44.25%), so this is consistent rather than a one-year dip.
Completion outcomes are a strength: a 95.9% graduation rate and 1.1% dropout rate in 2024–2025, both better than the district's 94.5% and 1.6%. The school holds 4 stars and ranks 49th of 353 high schools statewide in 2025–2026 — the 86th percentile, roughly the top 14% — though that is a slight slide from 40th of 348 (89th percentile) in 2023–2024. Science 10th-grade proficiency also fell 9.52 points year over year, from 74.83% to 65.31%, a larger decline than the state's. Two context notes: free/reduced-lunch data is not available in this record, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed, and per-student spending ($13,677) is from 2020–2021, older than the test-score and graduation data.
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