Mendon-Upton
1 high school and 2 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Mendon and Upton attend Mendon-Upton schools, including Nipmuc Regional High School.
Ranks #103 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 32%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Mendon-Upton Regional School District serves the towns of Mendon and Upton in south-central Massachusetts, roughly 30 miles southwest of Boston and near the Rhode Island border. Both towns are primarily residential and rural-suburban in character, with open land, farms, and conservation areas alongside established neighborhoods. The district's high school, Nipmuc Regional High, draws students from both communities. Mendon is known for its colonial-era town center and historic common, while Upton has long been associated with its historic town green and nearby rural landscape. Both towns carry notable single-family assessed values and per capita incomes that place them among the more affluent communities in the region.
How it compares
- Strongest area: ELA MCAS, in the top 28% of districts. 49% of students in grades 3–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Area to watch: Graduation rate ranks in the bottom 37% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 19.1% in 2022 to 10.7% in 2025.
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Schools in Mendon-Upton
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 (Nipmuc Regional High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
52.7% female · 47.2% 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 161 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.9% 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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