Concord-Carlisle
1 high school and 4 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Carlisle and Concord attend Concord-Carlisle schools, including Concord Carlisle High School.
Ranks #11 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 4%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Concord-Carlisle is a regional school district serving the towns of Concord and Carlisle, located about 20 miles northwest of Boston in Middlesex County. Both communities are among the more affluent suburbs in the state, with high single-family assessed values and per capita incomes that rank them well above most Massachusetts towns. Concord is one of the historic towns of the American Revolution, home to the North Bridge and the Minute Man National Historical Park, and it was also a center of 19th-century American literature, the home of Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau. Carlisle, a smaller and largely rural town adjoining Concord, is known for its open land and conservation areas, and the district's high school serves students from both communities.
How it compares
- Strongest area: AP results, in the top 2% of districts. 96% of AP exams at its high schools scored 3 or higher, vs 69% for the average MA district.
- Top school: Concord Carlisle High, #18 of 335 Massachusetts high schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 15.3% in 2022 to 10.6% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 5.1 points since 2023 (75.2421% to 70.1181%); statewide it fell 4.1 points.
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Schools in Concord-Carlisle
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 (Concord Carlisle High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.3% female · 52.5% male · 0.2% 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 105 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
8.6 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.8% missed 20% or more of school days
About the towns
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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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