Summary:
ZIP code 01562 covers Spencer, Massachusetts, and contains just one high school: David Prouty High, a grades 9–12 campus at 302 Main Street with 306 students, part of the Spencer-E Brookfield district. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no local schools to compare it against, so the useful benchmarks are the district and the state. The free/reduced-lunch field is blank, so the share of students from lower-income families is unknown and should not be read as zero.
Academically, the school's strongest result is in English language arts. In 2025–2026, 10th-grade ELA proficiency was 59.62%, above both the district (54.24%) and the state (45.48%), and up sharply from 47.46% the year before. Math is moving in the right direction but still trails the state: proficiency rose from 29.63% to 38.46%, yet the state average is 43.73%. Science is the clearest concern — 10th-grade science proficiency was 24% against 40.5% statewide, and Biology End-of-Course proficiency was 23.53% versus 37.68% statewide. Science also fell from 37.74% in 2024–2025, the largest one-year decline in the data.
The school's overall ranking has improved but remains below the middle: it moved from 222 of 348 schools (36th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 205 of 353 (42nd percentile) in 2025–2026, holding 2 stars each year. The district's listed rank is lower, at 279 of 351 (21st percentile, 1 star). For 2024–2025, the graduation rate was 77.0% and the dropout rate 12.2%, close to district figures but indicating that some students take longer than four years or leave school. Resources look favorable, with a student-teacher ratio of 9.9 and per-student spending of $17,944 in 2020–2021. In short: strong and improving ELA, improving but below-state math, and science and biology results well below state averages.
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