Tewksbury
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Tewksbury
Ranks #101 of 328 Massachusetts school districts — top 31%.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Tewksbury is a suburban town in Middlesex County, roughly 25 miles northwest of Boston, situated along the Merrimack River and near the New Hampshire border. The town's public schools serve the community through Tewksbury Memorial High School and the district's other schools. Tewksbury is home to the Tewksbury Hospital campus, a longstanding state institution, and its landscape includes conservation land and a mix of residential neighborhoods and commercial corridors along Route 38 and Interstate 93. The town's character blends suburban residential living with easy access to Lowell, Andover, and the greater Boston area.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 28% of districts. Students attend 94.8% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Relative weak spot: AP results rank in the top 47% of districts, below its other categories.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 19.9% in 2022 to 11.2% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 7.1 points since 2023 (48.5898% to 41.5396%); statewide it fell 3.4 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 Tewksbury
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 (Tewksbury Memorial High). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
51.2% female · 48.7% 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 254 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.1 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2% missed 20% or more of school days
About Tewksbury
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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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