Summary:
Zip code 01985 is home to three public schools — one elementary, one middle, and one high school — all part of the Pentucket district, serving 1,240 students across grades PK–12. The high school enrolls 578 students, the middle school 335, and the elementary school 327. As a district, Pentucket ranks 131 of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 63rd percentile with 3 stars. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all three schools, so socioeconomic context is not available, and spending figures are from 2020–2021 while test and ratio data come from 2024–2025 or 2025–2026. Because district and state benchmarks vary by grade span, comparisons are most meaningful within the same grade-level row.
Dr John C Page School is the clearest standout. It earned 4 stars and ranked 232 of 899 elementary schools in 2025–2026, at the 74th percentile — the top quartile — and has held 4 stars for three years. Its all-grades proficiency beat both district and state in ELA (53.04), math (59.55), and science (67.74), with science 26.76 points above the state. Fifth grade was especially strong: math 80.65, science 67.74, and ELA 61.29. Third grade is the exception, with ELA 37.78 and math 29.55 below district and state — possibly a cohort-specific issue.
Pentucket Regional Senior High has strong completion outcomes — a 98.7% graduation rate and 1.3% dropout rate — and still scores above state in 10th-grade ELA (59.86), math (48.28), science (42.54), and Biology (46.76). But it slipped from the 81st percentile with 4 stars to the 68th percentile with 3 stars, and its 10th-grade scores fell year over year. Pentucket Regional Middle is the relative weak point: steady at 3 stars but at the 60th percentile, with 2025–2026 ELA (40.79), math (39.89), and science (39.41) below district benchmarks and civics (34.12) below state. It also has the highest per-student spending ($17,206) and student-teacher ratio (12.4), though that historical spending data should not be read as causal.
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