Pembroke
1 high school and 3 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Pembroke
Ranks #81 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 25%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Pembroke is a suburban town of roughly 20,000 residents located about 25 miles south of Boston along the South Shore. The Pembroke Public Schools serve the town through a single public high school, Pembroke High School, alongside its elementary and middle school system. The town is bordered by Hanson, Hanover, Duxbury, and Kingston, and its landscape includes several ponds, including Oldham Pond and Herring Brook. Average single-family assessed values and per capita income in Pembroke are above the state median, reflecting its established residential character.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 15% of districts. 98.3% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Relative weak spot: ELA MCAS ranks in the top 43% of districts, below its other categories.
- Top school: Bryantville Elementary, #97 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 23.7% in 2022 to 11.6% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 12.1 points since 2023 (52.1464% to 40.0032%); statewide it fell 3.7 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 Pembroke
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 (Pembroke High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.7% female · 52.3% male
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 187 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
10.1 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2% missed 20% or more of school days
About Pembroke
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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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