Summary:
ZIP code 01562 has just one public elementary school: Wire Village School in Spencer, Massachusetts, serving grades K–4 with 430 students as part of the Spencer-E Brookfield district. Because it is the only elementary school in the area, there are no local school-to-school comparisons to make — everything below describes this single school, measured mainly against its district and the state.
Wire Village does not rank as a high-performing school statewide. In 2025-26 it placed 763 out of 899 ranked schools, in the 15th percentile, with 1 star; the district placed 279 out of 351, in the 21st percentile, also with 1 star. On 2025-26 MCAS Next Generation tests, all-grade proficiency was 24.29% in ELA and 22.03% in math, against state averages of 40.03% and 41.11%. That puts the school roughly 15.7 percentage points below the state in ELA and about 19.1 points below in math, making mathematics the larger relative weakness. At the all-grade level the school was slightly above its district in both subjects, but grade-level results told a different story: 3rd- and 4th-grade scores were below district averages in every subject. The strongest listed result was 3rd grade ELA at 29.27%; the weakest was 3rd grade math at 20.73%, about 21.5 points below the state.
There are encouraging signs of slow improvement. The school moved from the 12th percentile in 2023-24 to the 15th percentile in 2025-26, gaining roughly 45 rank positions, and proficiency rose from 2024-25 to 2025-26 by 0.59 points in ELA and 2.38 points in math — enough to move it from slightly below the district in math to slightly above. The student-teacher ratio is 12, and per-student spending was $16,097 in 2020-21, though free/reduced lunch data is blank and should not be read as zero, so socioeconomic context and resource efficiency cannot be assessed from this record.
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