Natick
1 high school and 4 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Natick
Ranks #43 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 14%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Natick is a suburban town located about 15 miles west of Boston in Middlesex County, and its public school district serves the entire town. The community is notably affluent, with a high average single-family assessed value and per capita income that place it among the more prosperous communities in the state. Natick is home to the historic Natick Labs, a former U.S. Army research center, and the town's Natick Center has long served as its civic and commercial hub. Its residential character features a mix of established neighborhoods, wooded conservation land, and proximity to the Charles River.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 1% of districts. Students attend 95.7% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Top school: Memorial, #64 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 13% in 2022 to 8.7% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 5.8 points since 2023 (66.9156% to 61.0856%); 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 Natick
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 (Natick 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 458 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
7.6 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2.3% missed 20% or more of school days
About Natick
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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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