Westborough
1 high school and 3 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Westborough
Ranks #42 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 13%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Westborough is a suburban town located about 30 miles west of Boston in Worcester County, and the Westborough Public Schools district serves the town as a single-community district. The town's single-family assessed values and per capita income both sit above the Massachusetts median, reflecting its established residential character. Westborough's history includes early settlement in the 1600s, and the town is home to the Westborough State Hospital historic campus and nearby conservation lands along the Assabet River corridor. The district's high school, Westborough High School, serves students from the town's residential neighborhoods.
How it compares
- Strongest area: SAT scores, in the top 9% of districts. Its high schools average 1254 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: Attendance ranks in the bottom 50% of districts.
- Top school: Westborough High, #33 of 335 Massachusetts high schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 22.9% in 2022 to 15.2% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 5.3 points since 2023 (68.043% to 62.7211%); statewide it fell 4.1 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 Westborough
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 (Westborough High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
49.8% female · 50.1% 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 333 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.8 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.3% missed 20% or more of school days
About Westborough
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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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