Summary:
ZIP code 01747 covers Hopedale, Massachusetts, and contains two schools serving a combined 1,014 students: Memorial, an elementary school for grades K–6 with 558 students, and Hopedale Junior Senior High, which serves grades 7–12 with 456 students. There is no separate middle school, since grades 7 and 8 are housed inside the junior/senior high. The Hopedale district is ranked 122 of 351 districts in Massachusetts, at the 65th percentile, with 3 stars.
Memorial is the academic standout on MCAS proficiency, beating both the district and the state in all three tested subjects for 2025–2026: English language arts at 46.47, math at 51.77, and science at 59.46. Its science score sits 18.48 points above the state. Grades 5 and 6 are especially strong, with 5th-grade math coming in 23.00 points above the state. The one soft spot is early elementary: 3rd-grade ELA and math were both slightly below state levels. Memorial has a student-teacher ratio of 12.6 and per-student spending of $15,916 (2020–2021).
Hopedale Junior Senior High posts strong completion outcomes, with a 96.8% graduation rate and a 3.2% dropout rate in 2024–2025, plus strong 10th-grade results: ELA 14.20 points above the state and math 20.20 points above. Its all-grade scores are more mixed, and 10th-grade science fell 8.36 points below the state even as 8th-grade science and Biology End of Course came in above it. The school ranks in the 67th percentile, with a student-teacher ratio of 10.1 and per-student spending of $16,267. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for both schools, so socioeconomic context is unknown rather than zero.
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