Summary:
ZIP code 02379 covers West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, and contains four schools serving about 1,357 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade. All four belong to the West Bridgewater district: Spring Street School (PK–K), Rose L Macdonald (grades 1–3), Howard School (grades 4–6), and West Bridgewater Junior/Senior (grades 7–12). There are no alternative schools here, and the high school is by far the largest, enrolling 45.2% of all students.
Rose L Macdonald is the clear academic standout, with 2025-26 all-grade math proficiency of 48.48% — the highest of any tested school and 7.37 points above the state — and a math gain of 11.64 points over the prior year. West Bridgewater Junior/Senior reports a 96.0% graduation rate and a 2.0% dropout rate, with 7th-grade ELA and math and Biology End-of-Course results above state, but 8th-grade ELA and science and all tested 10th-grade subjects fall below state. Howard School's all-grade ELA of 26.40% is 13.63 points below the state and is the clearest local weakness, with every tested grade 4–6 below state. Spring Street School serves PK–K and has no MCAS scores.
District-wide, math is essentially even with the state, while ELA is 6.44 points below and science 8.22 points below. The district's ELA decline from 2024-25 to 2025-26 was steeper than the state's, suggesting a local issue rather than only a statewide trend. Spending and staffing do not map neatly onto outcomes: the high school has the lowest student/teacher ratio (12.2) and the highest per-student spending ($14,419), while Howard has the highest ratio (17.1). Free/reduced-lunch percentages are unavailable for all four schools, so socioeconomic context cannot be analyzed here, and the spending figures come from 2020-21 — useful background, not proof of cause.
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