Nashoba
1 high school and 3 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Bolton, Lancaster and Stow attend Nashoba schools, including Nashoba Regional.
Ranks #67 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 21%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Nashoba Regional School District serves the towns of Bolton, Lancaster, and Stow, located in north-central Massachusetts roughly 30 miles west of Boston. Bolton and Stow are notably affluent communities, with high average single-family assessed values and per capita income well above the state median, while Lancaster is a more mixed suburban and rural community. The three towns share a largely residential, rural-suburban character with conservation land, farms, and open space. Lancaster is home to the historic First Church of Christ, Congregational, and the Lancaster area is known for its Revolutionary War-era colonial heritage, including its role in the early days of the American Revolution.
How it compares
- Strongest area: SAT scores, in the top 16% of districts. Its high schools average 1204 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Top school: Florence Sawyer School, #91 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 18.2% in 2022 to 10.1% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 7.7 points since 2023 (65.0228% to 57.3475%); statewide it fell 3.8 points.
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 Nashoba
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 (Nashoba Regional). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
48.9% female · 51% 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 247 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
8.9 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.7% 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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