Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public
1 high school in our rankings
Ranks #93 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 29%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School is a public charter school serving students in and around Worcester, Massachusetts, the state's second-largest city. The school is named for Abby Kelley Foster, a Worcester-born abolitionist and women's rights advocate who was active in the anti-slavery movement of the mid-nineteenth century. As a charter school, it operates independently of a traditional town school committee while remaining tuition-free and open to students through a public lottery process.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 3% of districts. 100% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: SAT scores rank in the bottom 32% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 15.3% in 2022 to 7.3% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 7.1 points since 2023 (41.1059% to 34.0306%); statewide it fell 3.5 points.
A district's overall rank is the average statewide percentile of its ranked schools, with a 10% discount for single-school districts. Category standings compare the average of each district's ranked schools and count only districts with data. How we rank
Schools in Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public
We rank high schools that report SAT results and elementary schools with grade 3 MCAS results, so some of the district's schools (middle schools, for example) aren't listed. Elementary ELA and Math are 2024–2026 averages of grade 3 results.
MCAS results
Share of students meeting or exceeding expectations, compared with the state. Statewide 10th-grade results dropped after 2024, when passing the MCAS stopped being a graduation requirement. There was no test in 2020.
High school results
Averages of the district's ranked high schools (Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
52.2% female · 47.8% male
Spending & teachers
Spending is total per-pupil expenditure from all sources. Dollar figures aren't adjusted for inflation. "MA median" is the middle district in each year; small districts can spend far more per student, so the median is a fairer yardstick than the average. Salary is the average across 126 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
7.1 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 0.8% missed 20% or more of school days