Gardner High

Located at 200 Catherine Street, in Gardner, Massachusetts, Gardner High is a mid-tier senior high that caters to 808 students (grades 8 through 12), operated by Gardner.

Gardner runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 2,532 students. Gardner High is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Gardner High reports that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment; the rest reads as 27% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 5% Black, 2% Asian. By comparison, Worcester County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 23.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, census data for Worcester County shows median household income runs about $95,939, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Worcester County runs 257 public schools (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students), of which Gardner High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gardner Middle School, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Gardner High.

Gardner High operates from a bedroom-community location.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count grew 17%: 690 students in 2018 compared to 808 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 73% to 56% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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