Mansfield
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Mansfield
Ranks #52 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 16%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Mansfield is a suburban town in Bristol County, located roughly 30 miles southwest of Boston and near the Rhode Island border. The Mansfield Public Schools district serves the town and its single high school, Mansfield High. Average single-family assessed values and per capita income in Mansfield are well above the statewide averages, reflecting a community of established residential neighborhoods. Historically, Mansfield is known as the birthplace of the Ames Shovel Works, a 19th-century manufacturing firm that once made the town a center of industry.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 7% of districts. 99.3% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Top school: Jordan/Jackson Elementary, #180 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 9.8 points since 2023 (58.2751% to 48.504%); statewide it fell 3.9 points.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 15.5% in 2022 to 10.7% 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 Mansfield
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 (Mansfield High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
48.3% female · 51.6% 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 297 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
8.6 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2.4% missed 20% or more of school days
About Mansfield
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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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