Harvard
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Harvard
Ranks #21 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 7%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Harvard is a rural-suburban town in Worcester County, roughly 35 miles west of Boston and set among hills and farmland in north-central Massachusetts. The town is home to Harvard Public Schools, which serves students through Bromfield High School. Harvard is notably affluent, with single-family assessed home values and per capita income well above state levels. The town is known for its conservation land, including Oxbow National Wildlife Refuge and extensive trail networks, and it is also the home of the Fruitlands Museum, which preserves historic properties and collections related to the Transcendentalist movement.
How it compares
- Strongest area: ELA MCAS, in the top 2% of districts. 70% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Area to watch: Attendance ranks in the bottom 15% of districts.
- Top school: The Bromfield High School, #12 of 335 Massachusetts high schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has risen from 13.9% in 2022 to 19.8% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 6.4 points since 2023 (76.2852% to 69.9134%); statewide it fell 3.8 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 Harvard
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 (The Bromfield High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
49.1% female · 50.6% male · 0.3% 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 88 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
12.9 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 4.9% missed 20% or more of school days
About Harvard
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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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