Northboro-Southboro
1 high school and 5 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Northborough and Southborough attend Northboro-Southboro schools, including Algonquin Regional High School.
Ranks #46 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 15%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Northborough-Southboro is a regional school district serving the towns of Northborough and Southborough, two suburban communities in Worcester County roughly 30 miles west of Boston. Southborough is notably affluent, with a high average single-family assessed value and per capita income that places it among the wealthier communities in the state, while Northborough also has a sizable residential base with substantial home values. The district's high school is Algonquin Regional High School, which draws students from both towns. Southborough is home to the Fay School, a long-established independent boarding and day school, and both towns retain a strong New England small-town character with conservation land and historic village centers.
How it compares
- Strongest area: SAT scores, in the top 10% of districts. Its high schools average 1241 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Relative weak spot: Graduation rate ranks in the top 36% of districts, below its other categories.
- Top school: Albert S. Woodward Memorial School, #19 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 21.6% in 2022 to 17.8% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 7.4 points since 2023 (66.5193% to 59.071%); 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 Northboro-Southboro
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 (Algonquin Regional High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
49.9% female · 49.9% 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 108 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
11.6 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.6% 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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