Summary:
ZIP code 01604 in Worcester, MA contains 8 public schools — six elementary, one middle, and one high school — serving about 4,454 students. Seven of them belong to the Worcester district (ranked 13th percentile statewide), and one is a standalone charter, Worcester Cultural Academy Charter Public School, whose district ranks 348 of 351.
Lake View is the only school here that beats the state average in every subject (ELA 48.05, math 49.35, science 64.52), the only one rated 3 stars, and ranked 66th percentile among elementary schools. Roosevelt is the quiet over-performer, topping district averages in all three subjects, and Union Hill School improved from the 4th to the 12th percentile. At the other end, North High posts the ZIP's weakest science (6.35) along with a 79.2% graduation rate against the district's 85.5% and a 13.2% dropout rate. The charter's math proficiency of 10.09 is the lowest locally, and Grafton Street has stayed at 0 stars for three straight years.
Overall the picture is bottom-heavy: the typical school in this ZIP scores roughly half the state average in every subject, with seven of eight below state norms and five landing between the 6th and 17th percentile. Neither spending nor class size predicts results — the lowest reported spender, Lake View ($14,750), outperforms the highest ($18,124 at Worcester East Middle) — though spending figures are from 2020-21 and missing entirely for the charter. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all eight schools, so poverty context is unavailable, and science scores swing widely because elementary science is tested in a single grade.
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