Quincy
2 high schools and 11 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Quincy
Ranks #149 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 46%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Quincy is a city in Norfolk County, located about 8 miles south of downtown Boston along the Massachusetts Bay coastline. Its public school district serves the entire city and includes two comprehensive high schools, North Quincy High School and Quincy High School. Quincy is widely known as the birthplace of John Adams and John Quincy Adams, the second and sixth presidents of the United States, and the Adams National Historical Park preserves their birthplaces and related sites. The city combines a dense, urban core near the Red Line's southern terminus with residential neighborhoods and waterfront areas along Quincy Bay.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 23% of districts. Students attend 94.4% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: Graduation rate ranks in the bottom 32% of districts.
- Top school: Wollaston School, #98 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 23.3% in 2022 to 15.6% in 2025.
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 Quincy
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. "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.1% female · 52.8% 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 759 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.7 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 4.1% missed 20% or more of school days
About Quincy
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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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