Westminster Elementary

Westminster Elementary is a mid-sized primary school in Westminster, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Ashburnham-Westminster. The school hosts 375 students in grades 2 through 5.

Ashburnham-Westminster comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 2,255 students; Westminster Elementary is among them.

Demographically, Westminster Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (89%); the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 73%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.2:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for Worcester County shows median household income runs about $95,939, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Worcester County's 257 public schools (combined enrollment of about 121,490 students), Westminster Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Meetinghouse School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Westminster Elementary's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 377 (now 375). Class-load math has pulled in: from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 12.9:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Westminster Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.