Summary:
Zip code 01566 contains two schools serving 1,198 students combined: Burgess Elementary, a PK–6 school of 842 students in the Sturbridge district, and Old Sturbridge Academy Charter Public School, a K–8 school of 356 students that operates as its own Old Sturbridge Academy Charter Public School (District). Both are classified as elementary, though the charter school also serves middle grades and tests middle-grade subjects. The data include MCAS Next Generation results for 2025–2026 and 2024–2025, rank history from 2023–2024 through 2025–2026, 2024–2025 student/teacher ratios, and 2020–2021 spending; free/reduced-lunch rates are not available in this extract.
Burgess is the clear higher performer. In 2025–2026 it ranked 250 of 899 schools (72nd percentile, 4 stars) and scored above the state in every reported all-grade subject: ELA 48.6% vs. 40.03%, mathematics 55.05% vs. 41.11%, and science 60.75% vs. 40.98%. Old Sturbridge ranked 728 of 899 (19th percentile, 1 star) and trailed the state in ELA (25.76%), mathematics (21.05%), science (27.94%), and 8th grade Civics (16.67% vs. 39.77%). The proficiency gap between the two schools is 22.84 points in ELA, 34.00 points in math, and 32.81 points in science — about 30 points on average, with math the widest.
The schools are also moving in opposite directions. Burgess climbed from the 60th percentile and 3 stars in 2023–2024 to the 72nd percentile and 4 stars in 2025–2026. Old Sturbridge slipped from the 32nd percentile and 2 stars to the 19th percentile and 1 star, with ELA, science, and 8th grade Civics results weakening from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Burgess also enrolls more students (842 vs. 356), has a lower student/teacher ratio (12 vs. 14.5), and spent more per student in 2020–2021 ($17,075 vs. $15,628) — though that spending data is several years old and the free/reduced-lunch rate is unknown, so it does not by itself explain the achievement differences.
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