Summary:
ZIP code 02050 has one public high school, Marshfield High, serving grades 9–12 with 1,119 students in the Marshfield district. Because it is the only high school in the ZIP, there are no cross-school comparisons; the useful context is year-over-year, school versus district, and school versus state. In 2025–26, Marshfield High earned 4 stars and ranked 87th of 353 schools, a 75th percentile placement. The district also earned 4 stars and ranked 104th of 351, a 70th percentile placement. The student-teacher ratio was 10.9 in 2024–25, and per-student spending was $15,346 in 2020–21. Free/reduced lunch status is not reported, so that context is unknown, not zero.
For families, the strongest current signals are achievement and completion. In 2025–26, Marshfield High was above the state in all four reported MCAS areas: English language arts at 60.58% versus 45.48% statewide, mathematics at 58.65% versus 43.73%, science at 51.91% versus 40.50%, and biology at 48.85% versus 37.68%. The school was slightly above its district in ELA, math, and science, and matched the district in biology. For 2024–25, the graduation rate was 97.5%, above the district’s 95.7%, and the dropout rate was 1.0%, below the district’s 1.2%.
The most notable recent change is improvement in math and science. From 2024–25 to 2025–26, mathematics rose from 47.13% to 58.65%, a gain of 11.52 percentage points, while science rose from 39.84% to 51.91%, a gain of 12.07 percentage points. Science moved from 6.05 percentage points below the state to 11.41 points above it. ELA slipped slightly from 61.15% to 60.58%, but its advantage over the state grew from 10.49 to 15.10 points because the state figure fell. The school’s rank dipped in 2024–25 to 148th of 349, 58th percentile and 3 stars, then rebounded in 2025–26. Biology should not be read as a direct year-over-year trend because the grade groupings differ. Overall, this is a strong-performing school with high graduation, low dropout, and above-state proficiency.
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