Leicester High

At 964 Main Street in Leicester, Massachusetts, Leicester High operates as a small high school. A total of 388 students attend the school, which covers grades 9 through 12. Against the 777-student average for high schools in Massachusetts, enrollment here is 50% lower.

District-wide, Leicester has 4 schools and 1,294 students.

At Leicester High, White students make up 65% of the student body. The remaining shares are 20% Hispanic, 7% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Pick two students at random and there is a 53% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

The school has about 10.7 students per teacher and 36.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. This ratio sits 12.7 below the 23.4:1 average for high schools in Massachusetts.

The allk12 Grade for Leicester High is B-. Compared with Massachusetts public high schools, the school scored higher than 48% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.

Leicester High is located in Worcester County, where the median household income is $95,939, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Leicester High is one of 257 public schools in the county.

The nearest other public school, Leicester Integrated Preschool, is about 0.4 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools.

NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.

Enrollment is down 12% from 2020-21, when Leicester High had 440 students, to 2024-25, when it had 388. The ratio of students to teachers went from 15.2:1 to 10.7:1 over the same years.

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