Winthrop
1 high school and 1 elementary school in our rankings · serves Winthrop
Ranks #226 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 3–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Winthrop is a coastal town on a peninsula in Suffolk County, located about 5 miles northeast of downtown Boston across Boston Harbor. The Winthrop Public Schools serve the town's residents through Winthrop High School and the district's other schools. Single-family homes in town carry assessed values above the state median, reflecting the town's appeal as a residential community with extensive waterfront and harborside views. Winthrop is known for its beaches, including Winthrop Beach, and for Deer Island, which is home to the Deer Island Water Treatment Plant.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 33% of districts. Students attend 94.7% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: AP results rank in the bottom 13% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 24.7% in 2022 to 13.1% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 7.2 points since 2023 (47.3871% to 40.2196%); statewide it fell 4.1 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 Winthrop
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 (Winthrop High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
49.8% female · 50.2% 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 158 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.3 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 2.2% missed 20% or more of school days
About Winthrop
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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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