Pentucket
1 high school and 3 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Groveland, Merrimac and West Newbury attend Pentucket schools, including Pentucket Regional Sr High School.
Ranks #114 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 35%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Pentucket Regional School District serves the towns of Groveland, Merrimac, and West Newbury in the Merrimack Valley of northeastern Massachusetts, roughly 35 miles north of Boston along the Merrimack River. Groveland and Merrimac are suburban-to-rural communities, while West Newbury is a more rural, historic town known for its open farmland and conservation land. West Newbury stands out among the three for its notably higher single-family assessed values and per capita income. The district's high school, Pentucket Regional Senior High, serves students from all three towns.
How it compares
- Strongest area: SAT scores, in the top 30% of districts. Its high schools average 1155 on the SAT, vs 1113 for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: Graduation rate ranks in the bottom 33% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 19% in 2022 to 12.3% in 2025.
- Trend: Math MCAS is down 5.5 points since 2023 (51.7895% to 46.3263%).
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 Pentucket
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 (Pentucket Regional Sr High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.5% female · 52.5% 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 184 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
10 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2.8% 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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