Summary:
ZIP code 01604 contains exactly one high school: North High, a large grades 9–12 comprehensive school at 140 Harrington Way with 1,376 students, part of the Worcester district. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP code, there are no school-to-school comparisons within the area — the useful benchmarks are the Worcester district and Massachusetts as a whole.
North High ranks near the bottom of the state data provided: 325th of 353 schools in 2025–26, the 8th percentile, with 0 stars. That is a slight improvement from 2024–25, when it was 328th of 349 (6th percentile), and from 2023–24 at 328th of 348. The Worcester district itself ranks 304th of 351, the 13th percentile, with 1 star. Test results trail both benchmarks in every reported subject: in 2025–26, 10th-grade ELA proficiency was 19.55% versus 25.70% district and 45.48% state; math was 12.31% versus 20.20% and 43.73%; science was 6.35% versus 19.25% and 40.50%; and Biology End of Course was 5.14% versus 20.14% and 37.68%. Gaps against the state range from roughly 26 to 34 percentage points, with science and biology the weakest areas and ELA the relatively strongest.
Graduation and dropout figures follow the same pattern: a 79.2% graduation rate versus 85.5% for the district, and a 13.2% dropout rate versus 8.5%. North High reports a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.4 and per-student spending of $16,564 for 2020–2021, a figure old enough to be read cautiously; free/reduced lunch percentage is not reported. The clearest positive sign is year-over-year growth in 10th-grade ELA (17.05% to 19.55%) and math (10.96% to 12.31%), while science slipped from 10.90% to 6.35%.
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