Freetown-Lakeville
1 high school and 2 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Freetown and Lakeville attend Freetown-Lakeville schools, including Apponequet Regional High School.
Ranks #86 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 27%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Freetown-Lakeville Regional School District serves the towns of Freetown and Lakeville, located in southeastern Massachusetts roughly 50 miles south of Boston, in the region along the Taunton River and near Rhode Island. The district's high school is Apponequet Regional High School, which draws students from both communities. Both towns have a largely suburban and rural character, with open land, conservation areas, and residential neighborhoods. Lakeville's single-family assessed values and per capita income are somewhat higher than Freetown's, reflecting the differences in the two towns' housing markets.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Math MCAS, in the top 20% of districts. 50% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Area to watch: SAT scores rank in the bottom 47% of districts.
- Top school: Freetown Elementary School, #175 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 23% in 2022 to 11.8% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 8.3 points since 2023 (48.4242% to 40.1029%); statewide it fell 3.6 points.
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 Freetown-Lakeville
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 (Apponequet Regional High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
48.7% female · 51.2% 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 215 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.5 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2.3% 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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