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What Are The Top 100 School Districts in Massachusetts?
Boston Magazine released its annual list, based on Education Department statistics.
Just in time for the start of the school year, Boston Magazine has released its annual rankings of the top school districts in Massachusetts.
Using the most recent data from the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Statistician George Recck, director of the Math Resource Center at Babson College, created a weighted average value based on the best available date for the school districts — including high schools, middle schools and elementary schools. Recck then compared each district’s data values with the overall average for all districts. After applying a percentage weight to the standardized value for each, the districts ranked based on their statistical score.
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Recck based the rankings on the following metrics: class size, enrollment, student-to-teacher ratio, per-pupil spending, graduation rate, percent of students attending college, average SAT scores, and MCAS scores for third graders.
The Dover-Sherborn School District scored the highest with a student-teacher ration of less than 12, more than $18,000 in annual per-pupil spending, and a graduation rate of 97.3 percent. Weston — with the highest graduation rate at 99.5 percent — Lexington, Wayland and Bedford round out the top 5.
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The top 100 school districts in Massachusetts include:
- Dover-Sherborn
- Weston
- Lexington
- Wayland
- Bedford
- Concord-carlisle
- Harvard
- Wellesley
- Westborough
- Newton
- Sharon
- Medfield
- Lincoln-Sudbury
- Holliston
- Winchester
- Manchester Essex
- Marblehead
- Northboro-Southboro
- Westford
- Brookline
- Westwood
- Needham
- Hamilton-Wenham
- Masconomet
- Acton-Boxborough
- Andover
- Newburyport
- Hopkinton
- Nashoba
- Hingham
- Cambridge
- Norwell
- Cohasset
- Rockport
- Foxborough
- Lynnfield
- Arlington
- Duxbury
- Burlington
- Swampscott-Nahant
- Stoneham
- Mansfield
- Scituate
- Littleton
- Belmont
- Chelmsford
- Ashland
- North Reading
- Berlin-Boylston
- Natick
- Franklin
- Hanover
- Braintree
- Pentucket
- Reading
- Canton
- Dedham
- Walpole
- Ipswitch
- Milton
- Wilmington
- Georgetown
- Medway
- Easton
- Watertown
- Wakefield
- King Philip
- Millis
- Triton
- Framingham
- Hull
- Norwood
- North Andover
- Danvers
- West Bridgewater
- Amesbury
- Marshfield
- Melrose
- Norton
- Stoughton
- Hudson
- Silver Lake
- Medford
- Waltham
- Maynard
- Woburn
- Tewksbury
- Bellerica
- Quincy
- Beverly
- Milford
- Plymouth
- Avon
- Gloucester
- Pembroke
- Peabody
- Carver
- Marlborough
- Winthrop
- Bridgewater-Raynham
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