Hopedale
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Hopedale
Ranks #76 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 24%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Hopedale is a small suburban town in Worcester County, roughly 35 miles southwest of Boston and just east of the city of Worcester. The Hopedale Public Schools serve the town through a single combined junior-senior high school, and the district's history is closely tied to the Hopedale Community, a utopian socialist community founded in 1842 whose industrial and residential buildings remain part of the town's character. Hopedale sits along the Mill River, and its village center retains much of its 19th-century New England architecture. The town's housing and income levels are near the Massachusetts median.
How it compares
- Strongest area: AP results, in the top 16% of districts. 87% of AP exams at its high schools scored 3 or higher, vs 69% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: SAT scores rank in the bottom 50% of districts.
- Top school: Hopedale Jr Sr High, #71 of 335 Massachusetts high schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 20.1% in 2022 to 10.4% in 2025.
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 Hopedale
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 (Hopedale Jr Sr High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
46.4% female · 53.5% male · 0.2% nonbinary
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 98 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.7 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.1% missed 20% or more of school days
About Hopedale
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Town figures are FY2026 averages for single-family homes from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Assessed values usually run below recent sale prices. "MA median" is the median of the state's 351 towns.
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