Scituate
1 high school and 4 elementary schools in our rankings · serves Scituate
Ranks #45 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.
Scituate is a coastal town on the South Shore, roughly 25 miles southeast of Boston, and it is the sole community served by its public school district. The town is known for its lighthouse at Cedar Point, its sandy beaches, and its harbor, which has long supported a working fishing and boating community. Scituate ranks among the more affluent communities in Massachusetts, with single-family assessed values and per capita income both in the top 15 percent of towns statewide. Its character blends residential suburban neighborhoods with a historic village center and extensive shoreline, and Scituate High School serves as the district's sole secondary school.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 13% of districts. 98.5% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Relative weak spot: AP results rank in the top 38% of districts, below its other categories.
- Top school: Hatherly Elementary, #142 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 16.9% in 2022 to 8.6% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 6.4 points since 2023 (64.6898% to 58.265%); 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 Scituate
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 (Scituate High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
49.4% female · 50.4% 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 236 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.1 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.2% missed 20% or more of school days
About Scituate
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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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