Summary:
Zip code 01778 is Wayland, Massachusetts, where five public schools serve about 2,649 students across grades K–12: three elementary schools (K–5), one middle school (6–8), and one high school (9–12), all part of the Wayland district — which ranks 9th of 351 districts in the state (97th percentile) and holds a 5-star rating.
The district's strongest performers are its secondary schools. Wayland Middle School ranks 3rd of 484 middle schools in 2024–25 and 9th of 478 in 2025–26, with current proficiency of 74.89% in ELA, 80.40% in Math, and 78.49% in Science. Wayland High School is top 5% statewide in all three recent years, with a 97.7% graduation rate, a 0.0% dropout rate, and 10th-grade Math at 83.33% and Science at 82.61%. Among the elementary schools, Loker School (96th percentile) and Happy Hollow School (97th percentile) lead, while Claypit Hill School sits lowest in the district — yet still ranks in the 91st percentile and rose from 4 stars to 5 stars in 2025–26.
Every Wayland school currently earns 5 stars, and all outperform the state by roughly 23 to 43 percentage points across ELA, Math, and Science. Student-teacher ratios are tight, ranging from 10.8 to 12.4, and per-student spending (2020–21) runs from $18,271 at Loker to $21,127 at the middle school — notably, Loker posts the lowest spending and highest ratio yet still performs near the top, so these figures alone don't explain results. Free/reduced-lunch data are not reported for 2024–25, so economic context isn't available. Overall, this is a tightly clustered, high-performing community, with the middle and high schools elite statewide and Claypit Hill showing the biggest internal gap alongside clear recent improvement.
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