Masconomet
1 high school and 3 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Boxford, Middleton and Topsfield attend Masconomet schools, including Masconomet Regional High School.
Ranks #71 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 22%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Masconomet Regional School District serves the towns of Boxford, Middleton, and Topsfield, three communities in Essex County roughly 20 to 25 miles north of Boston on the North Shore. The towns share a largely residential, low-density character with wooded lots, farmland, and conservation land, and they are among the more affluent communities in the region, with high single-family assessed home values and per capita income well above state levels. Topsfield is known for its town green and its long-running Topsfield Fair, one of the oldest agricultural fairs in New England, dating to 1818. The district's regional high school, Masconomet Regional High School, is located in Boxford and serves students from all three towns.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 20% of districts. 98% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Top school: Spofford Pond, #197 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 11.8 points since 2023 (62.8192% to 51.0616%); statewide it fell 3.6 points.
- Trend: Math MCAS is down 8.4 points since 2023 (59.8748% to 51.4777%).
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 Masconomet
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 (Masconomet Regional High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
52.3% female · 47.6% 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 131 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
10.9 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.8% 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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