Silver Lake
1 high school and 3 elementary schools in our rankings
Students from Halifax, Kingston and Plympton attend Silver Lake schools, including Silver Lake Regional High School.
Ranks #68 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 21%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Silver Lake Regional School District serves the towns of Halifax, Kingston, and Plympton, three communities in southeastern Massachusetts roughly 30 miles south of Boston along the South Shore. The district's regional high school, Silver Lake Regional High, draws students from all three towns, which share a largely residential, small-town character with open land, lakes, and nearby conservation areas. Kingston and Plympton are among the more affluent towns in the district, with single-family assessed values and per capita incomes that sit above those of Halifax. Halifax, incorporated in 1734, was historically part of the Plymouth Colony region and is known for its rural landscape and early agricultural roots.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 28% of districts. 97.4% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: SAT scores rank in the bottom 45% of districts.
- Top school: Halifax Elementary, #109 of 895 Massachusetts elementary schools.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 22.7% in 2022 to 17.1% 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 Silver Lake
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 (Silver Lake Regional High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
48.4% female · 51.5% 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 128 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
11.2 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3.7% 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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