Attleboro
1 high school and 5 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Attleboro
Ranks #159 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 49%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Attleboro is a city in Bristol County, located about 35 miles southwest of Boston and sitting along the Rhode Island border. The Attleboro Public Schools district serves the city's residents through a network of elementary, middle, and high school campuses, with Attleboro High School as its principal secondary school. Historically known as a center of the jewelry manufacturing industry, Attleboro earned the nickname "Jewelry Capital of the World" during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The city combines a traditional small-city character with suburban residential neighborhoods and access to the commuter corridors serving Providence and Boston.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 50% of districts. Students attend 93.5% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: SAT scores rank in the bottom 26% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 30.1% in 2022 to 17.8% in 2025.
A district's overall rank is the average statewide percentile of its ranked schools, with a 10% discount for single-school districts. Category standings compare the average of each district's ranked schools and count only districts with data. How we rank
Schools in Attleboro
We rank high schools that report SAT results and elementary schools with grade 3 MCAS results, so some of the district's schools (middle schools, for example) aren't listed. Elementary ELA and Math are 2024–2026 averages of grade 3 results.
MCAS results
Share of students meeting or exceeding expectations, compared with the state. Statewide 10th-grade results dropped after 2024, when passing the MCAS stopped being a graduation requirement. There was no test in 2020.
High school results
Averages of the district's ranked high schools (Attleboro High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
48.1% female · 51.7% male · 0.1% nonbinary
Spending & teachers
Spending is total per-pupil expenditure from all sources. Dollar figures aren't adjusted for inflation. "MA median" is the middle district in each year; small districts can spend far more per student, so the median is a fairer yardstick than the average. Salary is the average across 406 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
11.1 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 4.3% missed 20% or more of school days
About Attleboro
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Town figures are FY2026 averages for single-family homes from the Massachusetts Department of Revenue. Assessed values usually run below recent sale prices. "MA median" is the median of the state's 351 towns.
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