Webster
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Webster
Ranks #290 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Webster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, located in the state's south-central region near the Connecticut border and roughly 15 miles south of Worcester. The Webster Public Schools district serves the town, and its high school is Bartlett High School. Webster sits along the Chaubunagungamaug Pond (Webster Lake) and the Quinebaug River, and its landscape combines residential neighborhoods with wooded and lakeside areas. The town was named after Daniel Webster, the 19th-century statesman and orator, and it developed historically around textile mills and manufacturing along the Thompson Brook corridor.
How it compares
- Best of its categories: SAT scores, in the bottom 9% of districts. Its high schools average 972 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 39.9% in 2022 to 27.3% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 6.2 points since 2023 (21.0224% to 14.8641%); statewide it fell 3.4 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 Webster
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 (Bartlett High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
46.1% female · 53.9% male · 0.1% 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 143 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
13.4 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 7.8% missed 20% or more of school days
About Webster
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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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