Summary:
ZIP code 01571 in Dudley, Massachusetts is served by four public schools in the Dudley-Charlton Regional district, forming a complete PK–12 progression: Mason Road School (PK–1), Dudley Elementary (2–4), Dudley Middle School (5–8), and Shepherd Hill Regional High (9–12). Together they enroll 2,087 students, with the high school alone accounting for 942, or about 45% of the total. The district holds a 1-star rating and ranks 257th of 351 statewide, in the 27th percentile, while the individual ranked schools generally show 2 stars.
Shepherd Hill Regional High has the strongest outcome data: a 92.2% graduation rate and 4.4% dropout rate, both better than the district, plus Biology end-of-course proficiency of 40.44%, above the state's 37.68%. Yet its 2025–2026 10th-grade MCAS results trail the state widely — ELA 24.74% vs. 45.48%, Math 28.80% vs. 43.73%, and Science 31.64% vs. 40.50%. Dudley Middle School posts the highest current rank percentile among ranked schools, at 41st, and its 7th-grade ELA score of 43.57% is the top 2025–2026 proficiency value in the ZIP code. Its 8th grade, however, is weak: Math 23.40%, Science 24.82%, Civics 24.11%, and ELA 32.39%, all below state averages.
Dudley Elementary shows a sharp recent slide, from 49th and 48th percentile to 32nd; its math proficiency fell from 42.49%, then above state, to 34.85%, and ELA from 41.20% to 30.00%. Mason Road School has no MCAS data because it serves PK–1, but records the highest per-student spending at $17,298 and a 13.8 student-teacher ratio. Free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all four schools, so economic context is unknown, not zero.
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