Brookline
1 high school and 8 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Brookline
Ranks #19 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 6%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Brookline is a town of roughly 60,000 residents located about 6 miles west of downtown Boston, bordered by Boston, Newton, and Brookline's neighbors along the Route 9 corridor. The town is notably affluent, with average single-family assessed values and per capita income among the higher figures in Massachusetts. Brookline is historically known as the birthplace of Frederick Law Olmsted's Olmsted Park system and the home of the Larz Anderson Park estate, which was once the summer residence of diplomat Larz Anderson and his wife Isabel. The district is served by Brookline High School, and the town's dense, residential character blends a suburban feel with close proximity to the city.
How it compares
- Strongest area: SAT scores, in the top 2% of districts. Its high schools average 1301 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Relative weak spot: Graduation rate ranks in the top 38% of districts, below its other categories.
- Top school: Brookline High, #14 of 335 Massachusetts high schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 15.1% in 2022 to 10.8% 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 Brookline
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 (Brookline High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
49.5% female · 50.2% male · 0.4% 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 582 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
8.7 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.8% missed 20% or more of school days
About Brookline
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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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