Middleborough
1 high school and 2 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Middleborough
Ranks #141 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 43%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Middleborough is a town in Plymouth County, located roughly 35 miles south of Boston and about 10 miles northwest of Plymouth. Its single-family assessed values sit near the Massachusetts median, reflecting a mix of suburban neighborhoods and rural and lakeside areas. The town is known for its large cranberry bog heritage and for Nemasket Hill, one of the older settlement areas in southeastern Massachusetts. Middleborough Public Schools serves the town through Middleborough High School and its other K-12 schools, as a traditional public district.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 37% of districts. 96.6% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: SAT scores rank in the bottom 31% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 28.3% in 2022 to 18.1% in 2025.
- Trend: Math MCAS is down 8.6 points since 2023 (38.0841% to 29.5128%).
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 Middleborough
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 (Middleborough High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
49.9% female · 49.8% male · 0.2% 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 214 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
11.5 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.4% missed 20% or more of school days
About Middleborough
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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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