About Worcester School District
Worcester School District is a public school system serving Worcester County, Massachusetts, based in Worcester. It serves 24,778 students across 47 schools spanning PreK–12, and is classified as a city: mid-size district. By enrollment it is the #2 largest of Massachusetts’s 395 school systems.
Size and structure
Worcester School District enrolls 24,778 students in 47 schools — an average of about 527 students per school. It serves grades PreK–12 and ranks #2 of 395 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Worcester School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (24,778 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Worcester School District employs about 1,910 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 13.0:1 — above the Massachusetts average of about 11.9:1. Total district staff is roughly 4,021.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Massachusetts funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Worcester School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Massachusetts does not assign A–F letter grades; its DESE accountability system reports an accountability percentile (1–99) and a criterion-referenced classification of whether a district is meeting its targets, across achievement, growth, high-school completion, English-learner progress and chronic absenteeism. Look up Worcester School District on the Massachusetts school and district report cards.
Accreditation status
The main voluntary K-12 accreditor for Massachusetts is NEASC (the New England Association of Schools and Colleges), an elective, membership-based process. Search Worcester School District’s schools in the NEASC directory.
Worcester School District vs. Massachusetts
See every Massachusetts district side by side in the Massachusetts directory.
Look up Worcester School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):