Haverhill
1 high school and 7 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Haverhill
Ranks #218 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Haverhill is a city in Essex County, located about 30 miles north of Boston along the Merrimack River near the New Hampshire border. Known as a historic mill city, it grew around the shoe and textile industries of the nineteenth century, and its downtown has been revitalized in recent decades with restored brick commercial buildings and riverfront development. The Haverhill Public Schools serve the city's students through a network of schools that includes Haverhill High School. Haverhill is also the birthplace of poet John Greenleaf Whittier, whose former home is a local museum.
How it compares
- Best of its categories: SAT scores, in the bottom 41% of districts. Its high schools average 1101 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: Graduation rate ranks in the bottom 9% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 41% in 2022 to 27.2% 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 Haverhill
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 (Haverhill High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.3% female · 52.6% 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 669 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
14.7 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 9.4% missed 20% or more of school days
About Haverhill
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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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