Dover-Sherborn
1 high school and 2 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Dover and Sherborn attend Dover-Sherborn schools, including Dover-Sherborn Regional High School.
Ranks #12 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.
Dover and Sherborn are two affluent suburban towns located about 20 miles southwest of Boston in Norfolk County, and they share the Dover-Sherborn Regional School District. Both towns have a largely residential, rural-suburban character, with wooded landscapes, open space, and large single-family lots. Single-family assessed home values and per capita income in both towns rank among the highest in Massachusetts. Sherborn is home to the Sherborn Historical Museum and a historic town center, while Dover contains extensive conservation land, including parts of the Charles River watershed.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 1% of districts. 100% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Top school: Dover-Sherborn Regional High, #3 of 335 Massachusetts high schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 11.3% in 2022 to 5.3% in 2025.
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Schools in Dover-Sherborn
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 (Dover-Sherborn Regional High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
49.5% female · 50.3% 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 103 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
7.8 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 0.5% 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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