NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Westborough, MA

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6 public K-12 schools in Westborough from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
3,831
Students
44.2/100
Avg Resource Index
11.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Westborough has more public-school enrollment than 41% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Westborough's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

3 of Westborough's 6 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 21-point gap between Sarah W Gibbons Middle and Elsie a Hastings Elementary shows the range hidden by Westborough's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 59%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
66th percentile
Teacher staffing
93rd percentile

Westborough High accounts for 31.7% of all Westborough public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Westborough-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Westborough school enrollment varies 4.0× across entities

Westborough school enrollment ranges from 305 students (lowest) to 1,213 students (highest), a spread of 908 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Westborough operates one school district — a single-district system

Westborough's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Westborough student-teacher ratio is 11.2:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Sarah W Gibbons Middle 59
2. Mill Pond School 46
3. Annie E Fales 43
4. Westborough High 41
5. Elsie a Hastings Elementary 38
6. J Harding Armstrong 38

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Westborough

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Elsie a Hastings Elementary 69.0/100
  2. 2 J Harding Armstrong 67.4/100
  3. 3 Sarah W Gibbons Middle 66.4/100
  4. 4 Mill Pond School 64.8/100
  5. 5 Annie E Fales 62.5/100

What do families ask about schools in Westborough?

Which Westborough school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Sarah W Gibbons Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Westborough schools in this federal-data comparison at 59/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Westborough, MA? ▼

Westborough has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,831 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 11.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.