Best Public Schools in Zip Code 01570

ZIP code 01570 in Webster, Massachusetts is home to three public schools serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade: Park Avenue Elementary (PK–4, 738 students), Webster Middle School (5–8, 566 students), and Bartlett High School (9–12, 408 students), for a total of 1,712 students. All three belong to the Webster district, which ranks 342 of 351 districts in Massachusetts, at the 3rd percentile with 0 stars. Families should know that every school here is ranked near the bottom of its school level statewide: Park Avenue at the 11th percentile, Webster Middle at the 9th, and Bartlett High at the 8th.

Among the three, Park Avenue Elementary has the strongest current results. Its all-grades ELA proficiency is 18.57% and math is 21.51%, both above district averages, and its grade 4 math score of 26.47% is the highest single subject-grade result in the area. Webster Middle follows in ELA at 14.57% and math at 14.60%, with a bright spot in 5th-grade science at 24.00%. Bartlett High has the lowest current ELA and science proficiency — 10th-grade ELA at 10.39% and science at 8.82% — though its math is slightly higher at 15.58%. For comparison, statewide proficiency is 40.03% in ELA and 41.11% in math, so no school in this ZIP code reaches the state average in any reported subject.

Several trends are worth noting. Proficiency generally declines as students move up through the grades, and both Park Avenue and Bartlett High posted large year-over-year drops, including Bartlett's 10th-grade ELA falling from 23.91% to 10.39%. Webster Middle's percentile has slid from 20 to 9 over three years. Bartlett High spends the most per student ($19,861 in 2020–21) yet has the lowest ELA and science results, so higher spending does not appear to translate into higher proficiency here. Class sizes are modest — all under 13 students per teacher — suggesting staffing ratios are not the main issue. Bartlett's graduation rate is 79.6% with a 9.7% dropout rate. Note that free/reduced-lunch data are unavailable for all three schools, so economic context cannot be assessed from this data set.