Lenox
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Lenox
Ranks #60 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 19%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Lenox is a town in Berkshire County in the far western part of Massachusetts, situated in the Berkshire Hills roughly 125 miles west of Boston. Its single-family assessed value and per capita income place it among the more affluent communities in the Berkshires, reflecting a long tradition of seasonal estates and cultural life centered on the area. The town is best known as the home of Tanglewood, the summer music festival of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, which has drawn audiences to the area since 1937. Lenox Memorial High School serves as the community's public secondary school, and the town retains a rural, village-centered character with significant conservation land across the surrounding hills.
How it compares
- Strongest area: ELA MCAS, in the top 8% of districts. 64% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Area to watch: AP results rank in the bottom 23% of districts.
- Top school: Lenox Memorial High, #63 of 335 Massachusetts high schools.
- Trend: Math MCAS is up 6.4 points since 2023 (55.7488% to 62.1885%).
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 Lenox
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 (Lenox Memorial High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
46.8% female · 53.1% 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 82 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
11 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.7% missed 20% or more of school days
About Lenox
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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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