Best Public School Districts in Boston 2017

Rank	District	Enrollment	Avg. Class Size	Student-Teacher Ratio	Per-Pupil Spending	Graduation Rate	Attending College (%)	Avg. SAT Reading Score	Avg. SAT Writing Score	Avg. SAT Math Score	MCAS / PARCC	Took AP Classes	AP Scoring 3-5 (%)	3rd Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC Reading (%)	3rd Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC Math (%)	5th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC English (%)	5th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC Math (%)	5th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC Science (%)	8th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC English (%)	8th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC Math (%)	8th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC Science (%)	10th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC English (%)	10th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC Math (%)	10th Grade Proficient or Higher on MCAS / PARCC Science (%)
1	Dover-Sherborn	2,087	17.2	11.6	$20,143	97.2	90.7	613	608	620	MCAS	202	94.4	71	90	91	86	86	95	79	77	99	98	99
2	Concord-Carlisle	3,974	16.4	12.6	$18,881	97.5	89.5	616	605	635	PARCC	274	94.4	76	84	87	88	78	84	80	70	98	94	97
3	Weston	2,154	15.5	11.4	$22,768	93.9	81.6	604	603	627	PARCC	275	84.2	78	85	84	80	74	81	86	77	99	95	85
4	Lexington	7,072	19.6	12.2	$17,867	96.1	84.0	619	611	645	MCAS	819	94.3	79	89	87	87	78	94	88	79	98	96	95
5	Wayland	2,646	16.9	12.8	$17,652	97.4	86.6	595	593	619	PARCC	203	92.9	67	73	81	79	74	78	85	74	98	95	94
6	Westford	5,120	19.0	14.1	$13,118	97.4	91.0	594	580	612	PARCC	397	96.0	82	81	86	82	80	89	88	73	99	97	96
7	Newton	12,827	18.0	11.9	$18,096	97.3	84.9	587	585	608	PARCC	967	90.9	78	79	83	76	67	84	82	57	98	94	93
8	Wellesley	5,018	17.7	13.3	$18,185	96.1	85.4	601	598	614	MCAS	313	95.6	81	87	89	83	70	93	76	70	98	93	91
9	Manchester Essex	1,396	17.4	10.7	$15,314	97.4	87.7	595	582	601	MCAS	125	86.5	75	85	83	75	69	93	77	68	100	97	96
10	Harvard	1,117	16.6	12.1	$15,799	94.2	90.7	594	583	589	MCAS	144	92.5	67	84	91	87	90	94	68	70	98	92	93
11	Sharon	3,468	18.3	12.5	$15,401	94.6	87.0	573	577	599	PARCC	318	94.1	80	83	83	83	78	84	83	61	98	97	96
12	Lincoln-Sudbury	5,571	19.8	12.5	$17,132	95.7	85.9	577	572	610	PARCC	235	95.9	81	83	89	80	75	87	89	56	98	93	91
13	Westborough	3,805	17.3	13.4	$14,746	96.5	85.5	583	577	608	PARCC	212	94.5	78	84	81	80	73	85	83	66	96	93	93
14	Winchester	4,623	19.4	13.1	$12,801	96.9	87.2	587	586	617	MCAS	264	89.0	81	90	90	89	84	92	81	75	98	93	92
15	Acton-Boxborough	5,588	21.6	15.0	$14,016	96.9	88.6	616	607	640	MCAS	445	94.5	67	77	87	80	71	96	85	77	98	95	95
16	Medfield	2,604	17.8	13.2	$13,849	98.3	94.0	553	558	587	PARCC	288	74.4	83	81	86	82	67	84	82	59	98	95	93
17	Bedford	2,608	14.5	11.7	$17,839	92.7	90.4	566	550	572	PARCC	132	91.6	80	87	82	74	63	73	78	50	95	88	85
18	Brookline	7,695	17.9	12.6	$17,652	92.8	80.6	598	589	617	MCAS	405	94.6	76	84	83	79	66	90	79	62	96	92	90
19	Needham	5,588	18.9	13.9	$15,900	97.1	90.2	574	571	582	MCAS	431	92.6	75	87	85	80	70	94	81	69	99	93	91
20	Masconomet	3,917	16.1	12.8	$15,568	96.5	90.6	549	547	566	PARCC	281	83.5	72	77	76	78	66	87	76	84	96	91	89
21	Marblehead	3,144	18.2	11.9	$13,678	95.5	88.6	563	565	564	PARCC	305	85.6	85	78	79	68	64	84	71	65	98	92	94
22	Westwood	3,162	18.6	13.5	$15,853	97.6	88.0	557	548	578	PARCC	285	90.3	83	84	85	76	76	85	65	45	98	95	92
23	Belmont	4,466	21.3	16.6	$13,029	96.3	86.2	586	583	609	PARCC	467	92.4	82	85	89	78	79	91	62	72	98	96	95
24	Hamilton-Wenham	1,782	17.4	11.8	$15,956	97.6	88.3	571	559	559	PARCC	185	71.2	84	83	83	79	64	79	65	47	98	94	80
25	Hopkinton	3,462	19.9	13.4	$13,535	98.4	89.7	552	544	580	MCAS	468	84.8	85	89	82	77	69	94	85	71	98	94	97
26	Northboro- Southboro	4,451	17.3	12.4	$15,603	95.7	90.7	551	552	566	MCAS	387	90.6	73	86	80	71	68	84	71	65	97	93	94
27	Hingham	4,317	18.5	14.7	$12,368	98.2	87.5	555	563	569	MCAS	251	96.0	76	88	90	88	83	90	69	64	98	94	95
28	Andover	6,009	18.3	13.1	$15,602	94.3	88.4	566	562	581	PARCC	458	78.1	77	73	82	70	63	83	73	48	98	94	84
29	Arlington	5,524	18.0	13.9	$13,383	95.4	84.2	581	576	592	PARCC	371	86.1	81	78	83	73	77	77	49	75	95	90	86
30	Cohasset	1,586	19.3	13.1	$14,937	98.2	92.9	564	560	562	MCAS	148	85.9	75	79	80	71	67	93	75	57	98	96	87
31	Norwell	2,192	18.1	13.4	$14,352	97.6	90.0	555	547	555	PARCC	221	81.7	64	74	73	61	65	84	70	68	99	94	94
32	Newburyport	2,295	17.8	12.4	$14,165	95.6	84.1	549	544	563	PARCC	148	90.1	67	74	70	71	54	87	81	67	98	90	91
33	Holliston	2,889	17.7	13.8	$13,446	93.2	89.2	561	549	581	MCAS	236	86.5	70	78	83	82	79	92	70	66	96	93	92
34	Nashoba	3,413	17.8	13.0	$14,264	94.2	90.0	552	539	563	MCAS	291	85.4	72	87	78	74	66	86	79	66	97	93	92
35	Ashland	2,701	18.0	14.4	$13,608	93.6	86.6	549	530	576	PARCC	162	94.6	70	69	73	59	63	84	76	58	99	97	95
36	Lynnfield	2,207	18.4	13.5	$13,900	98.8	87.0	530	541	547	MCAS	149	79.5	83	89	86	86	79	92	79	60	97	89	89
37	Littleton	1,646	19.0	14.9	$13,990	94.6	87.3	578	578	589	MCAS	97	92.5	71	83	73	76	59	83	59	60	96	93	93
38	Natick	5,472	19.4	14.1	$14,044	97.9	85.2	555	538	565	PARCC	357	80.2	66	66	71	65	67	82	75	62	97	92	90
39	Scituate	3,001	18.8	12.3	$13,791	94.9	90.3	544	543	551	PARCC	260	74.4	66	74	83	77	74	70	55	58	97	90	83
40	Franklin	5,412	18.6	13.2	$12,435	95.7	89.5	542	532	556	PARCC	421	73.8	63	71	77	76	62	74	67	59	98	93	93
41	Duxbury	3,121	20.9	13.2	$13,156	97.8	89.7	545	544	565	PARCC	316	71.7	66	79	73	74	69	77	44	63	98	93	96
42	Mansfield	3,958	17.0	13.1	$13,790	97.5	88.5	541	537	566	PARCC	228	89.0	67	76	71	60	52	80	68	46	94	87	83
43	Reading	4,324	19.4	13.9	$12,520	97.5	90.5	542	524	557	PARCC	206	83.9	64	73	73	67	56	80	63	54	99	93	91
44	Swampscott-Nahant	2,231	17.1	11.5	$ 15,095	93.5	90.6	520	515	535	PARCC	161	71.3	71	76	80	51	53.0	79	75	38	95	89	92
45	Walpole	3,855	19.6	13.6	$14,078	95.0	87.8	527	524	538	PARCC	178	88.9	68	79	78	72	82	81	69	51	97	83	90
46	Chelmsford	4,974	18.0	13.6	$13,289	94.5	89.4	545	519	556	MCAS	288	76.2	68	77	77	67	65	90	72	63	96	92	90
47	Braintree	5,809	17.7	14.4	$13,838	93.8	87.0	518	509	541	PARCC	311	85.3	80	79	80	58	69	76	71	61	95	93	85
48	North Reading	2,496	18.9	12.7	$14,137	93.0	78.9	551	541	554	PARCC	255	64.4	79	84	84	70	75	70	62	40	97	89	88
49	King Philip	4,778	20.0	15.0	$14,074	94.9	86.1	551	535	544	MCAS	398	80.1	74	73	82	77	66	69	60	51	98	91	98
50	Medway	2,316	18.7	14.8	$13,308	95.3	87.8	535	526	547	MCAS	286	75.7	75	86	87	80	71	87	67	48	98	91	85
51	Foxborough	2,601	16.2	12.7	$15,207	95.2	81.6	520	514	534	PARCC	217	71.0	69	82	61	64	52	66	74	50	95	89	88
52	Georgetown	1,447	18.9	13.6	$12,602	96.1	92.6	549	540	534	MCAS	42	100.0	56	80	68	74	59	88	56	35	97	90	88
53	Berlin-Boylston	1,067	16.6	13.1	$14,730	91.7	82.8	526	510	528	PARCC	69	77.5	77	80	61	50	53	70	59	67	99	87	88
54	Canton	3,325	18.9	13.6	$14,168	94.9	87.7	520	507	536	PARCC	234	67.3	70	78	74	63	57	73	68	56	98	88	89
55	Rockport	928	16.7	10.9	$16,128	93.8	83.8	530	499	528	PARCC	53	63.0	64	46	70	42	61	74	64	59	99	84	86
56	Easton	3,750	20.0	14.6	$12,731	96.8	89.9	543	533	550	MCAS	309	71.8	68	79	66	73	66	91	74	65	97	89	80
57	Marshfield	4,245	18.7	13.1	$12,709	95.8	86.9	518	512	520	MCAS	180	72.3	68	79	86	79	71	89	71	56	98	90	83
58	Burlington	3,521	17.6	11.4	$19,238	95.3	85.2	521	517	540	PARCC	213	79.3	60	70	58	49	57	65	53	45	93	87	77
59	Ipswich	1,778	17.3	10.9	$14,069	94.0	79.7	527	518	513	MCAS	126	80.2	62	78	78	75	69	88	71	47	97	86	82
60	Milton	4,150	18.9	16.8	$14,116	94.5	88.2	530	524	555	PARCC	281	75.6	62	71	77	73	63	75	74	53	95	88	87
61	Cambridge	6,794	15.1	10.6	$27,569	88.8	80.6	521	514	526	PARCC	352	83.2	65	64	76	61	52	65	48	35	89	78	74
62	Melrose	3,798	20.1	14.5	$12,058	94.7	84.3	529	527	533	PARCC	268	70.0	82	81	82	74	70	76	54	55	95	83	80
63	Hanover	2,625	18.9	13.5	$12,474	98.5	86.9	505	495	520	PARCC	211	64.0	61	67	76	57	68	79	47	52	99	86	89
64	Millis	1,323	17.7	14.0	$13,490	93.0	87.4	516	496	503	MCAS	93	71.1	62	86	80	74	59	87	73	45	98	91	82
65	Norwood	3,411	17.6	12.4	$15,480	93.1	82.3	505	512	522	PARCC	106	73.5	69	72	75	58	56	71	59	42	91	83	83
66	Wilmington	3,391	17.7	12.4	$15,502	93.3	86.6	514	508	527	MCAS	137	69.1	64	80	79	75	48	81	56	43	95	87	79
67	Silver Lake	3,665	19.6	14.2	$13,725	97.9	75.4	520	509	539	PARCC	215	80.4	52	69	67	67	54	78	52	59	95	87	85
68	Pentucket	2,498	16.8	12.3	$13,869	90.5	82.8	524	528	532	PARCC	167	68.9	60	59	63	47	48	69	42	41	96	87	87
69	Watertown	2,592	16.1	11.2	$20,134	85.6	83.8	503	487	534	PARCC	108	80.3	53	56	65	56	52	64	53	38	93	81	76
70	Dedham	2,693	16.6	11.6	$17,780	91.7	78.9	490	477	520	PARCC	191	58.5	71	64	74	66	50	66	58	39	92	89	85
71	Stoneham	2,353	16.5	12.7	$14,940	91.6	87.0	497	498	490	PARCC	136	65.9	60	66	75	42	38	70	70	47	95	87	86
72	Triton	2,515	18.5	12.3	$14,987	89.7	80.9	523	518	550	PARCC	129	67.3	57	60	72	48	44	68	61	38	97	88	78
73	North Andover	4,766	21.4	15.9	$12,055	94.4	88.6	523	517	530	MCAS	278	90.1	66	78	80	70	62	87	68	48	93	85	89
74	Hull	930	14.3	11.4	$17,671	80.0	76.7	507	502	513	PARCC	75	66.9	75	85	74	58	58	73	59	41	89	73	81
75	Wakefield	3,538	18.6	13.3	$13,598	96.1	86.2	524	521	537	PARCC	172	73.9	57	68	63	47	46	64	43	38	93	82	78
76	Norton	2,501	19.0	14.1	$13,219	93.7	79.9	520	502	513	MCAS	179	72.0	57	65	71	63	46	90	67	44	96	88	90
77	Danvers	3,379	18.2	12.5	$14,607	93.6	81.4	515	506	523	PARCC	252	66.4	67	61	69	55	38	56	46	47	93	79	79
78	Billerica	4,882	18.7	13.1	$15,435	91.9	76.7	521	516	540	PARCC	215	69.4	57	61	63	48	30	69	40	49	94	80	84
79	Stoughton	3,555	17.1	11.9	$13,517	90.7	83.3	512	502	518	PARCC	121	62.2	59	61	71	50	46	63	42	31	94	79	82
80	West Bridgewater	1,287	19.1	14.5	$11,750	97.3	86.9	506	496	508	PARCC	108	47.6	60	80	73	57	55	63	32	34	100	83	84
81	Framingham	8,609	16.9	11.7	$17,448	84.8	73.4	529	514	562	PARCC	401	91.2	44	45	54	38	37	54	47	32	91	80	83
82	Pembroke	3,002	19.2	14.7	$11,467	95.4	75.8	505	500	522	PARCC	199	63.6	75	76	69	62	46	51	39	47	99	93	84
83	Woburn	4,628	17.3	12.3	$15,158	87.9	75.8	495	481	516	PARCC	181	65.8	59	65	68	63	55	65	55	39	95	83	76
84	Amesbury	2,150	18.3	12.7	$13,772	90.9	72.3	530	517	531	MCAS	104	81.0	50	58	63	59	58	86	66	55	91	79	74
85	Bridgewater- Raynham	5,346	20.3	16.0	$12,759	91.1	76.1	510	504	531	PARCC	269	67.9	67	67	64	55	50	71	72	53	95	86	76
86	Tewksbury	3,547	20.6	13.7	$14,720	92.6	77.0	495	489	512	PARCC	202	65.3	72	73	48	49	39	70	64	39	93	85	84
87	Beverly	4,525	18.8	14.2	$13,188	89.5	75.8	517	511	523	PARCC	226	64.4	56	64	65	51	45	67	69	47	89	79	79
88	Carver	1,626	16.7	12.4	$14,262	88.8	75.8	514	496	517	PARCC	104	51.8	48	66	73	61	53	56	41	21	96	84	68
89	Medford	4,487	15.3	12.0	$16,006	80.4	74.7	511	508	513	PARCC	128	88.9	49	43	57	34	36	64	38	46	91	80	72
90	Hudson	2,643	17.2	11.2	$14,637	88.9	87.3	506	503	512	MCAS	174	63.1	43	68	59	58	38	75	45	33	94	72	73
91	Avon	714	14.7	10.8	$14,284	83.3	87.8	467	451	481	PARCC	21	37.0	84	72	70	52	34	65	55	43	91	73	65
92	Middleborough	2,762	19.0	12.0	$13,515	93.0	73.4	501	481	508	PARCC	182	67.6	57	64	58	53	47	67	31	33	89	81	77
93	Quincy	9,249	16.8	13.3	$16,023	90.4	74.3	474	461	510	MCAS	343	72.4	55	71	68	63	53	78	57	41	89	80	78
94	Gloucester	2,930	17.5	11.2	$16,066	86.7	68.5	496	475	509	PARCC	104	66.3	68	64	66	54	35	56	49	30	93	72	68
95	Waltham	5,461	17.0	11.4	$19,940	84.6	74.2	473	471	500	PARCC	225	71.9	48	50	60	42	42	65	52	40	87	67	72
96	Maynard	1,439	17.9	13.1	$14,642	86.0	76.7	540	524	546	PARCC	85	67.4	55	49	66	52	43	54	13	28	90	70	62
97	Milford	4,187	17.6	12.7	$13,340	83.9	77.0	505	492	514	PARCC	315	55.7	57	60	65	36	51	71	58	47	87	70	70
98	Bellingham	2,257	18.3	13.7	$13,220	88.4	67.4	515	480	518	PARCC	101	50.0	54	67	54	44	50	61	63	46	92	76	78
99	East Bridgewater	2,302	21.6	17.7	$10,400	95.2	85.7	518	494	500	MCAS	126	54.4	50	68	77	72	78	80	47	38	97	83	67
100	Plymouth	7,552	17.4	11.8	$14,935	89.6	68.4	473	460	491	PARCC	435	56.8	54	63	56	47	44	59	37	45	92	78	79
101	Whitman-Hanson	4,000	21.9	15.8	$11,703	92.4	75.7	499	499	518	PARCC	339	56.7	50	59	50	50	41	55	55	38	94	86	83
102	Abington	1,916	21.6	14.7	$13,271	92.4	75.8	520	498	516	MCAS	70	56.1	56	65	66	60	50	77	55	27	93	80	74
103	Holbrook	1,170	14.9	13.1	$14,781	83.1	62.7	458	450	473	PARCC	35	48.1	53	76	62	54	66	59	61	34	94	76	75
104	Peabody	5,956	18.3	13.5	$13,496	86.6	75.4	497	476	508	MCAS	370	58.5	58	68	70	54	52	78	53	33	90	71	68
105	Marlborough	4,525	17.6	12.1	$15,843	85.0	75.8	498	478	522	PARCC	255	42.6	39	50	48	49	40	59	53	35	84	67	70
106	Saugus	2,603	16.5	12.6	$14,166	86.4	83.0	490	484	500	MCAS	163	42.7	59	72	66	54	47	75	35	26	88	69	66
107	Weymouth	6,289	18.9	14.9	$13,675	87.1	62.9	503	491	510	PARCC	212	75.3	53	58	53	39	42	53	46	30	92	74	80
108	Winthrop	1,971	20.6	13.1	$12,548	86.6	80.2	480	468	493	PARCC	148	41.7	63	66	75	62	38	61	35	30	93	70	67
109	Rockland	2,294	19.6	15.0	$13,549	88.2	71.8	481	467	501	PARCC	135	41.4	57	59	52	52	44	46	40	26	89	72	67
110	Somerville	4,931	16.4	11.5	$18,165	81.5	70.7	460	456	484	MCAS	271	53.8	50	61	53	49	36	70	42	28	85	67	67
111	Salem	3,772	15.5	10.1	$16,895	83.1	66.2	490	460	487	PARCC	188	34.5	45	45	56	41	34	44	34	15	86	56	56
112	Methuen	6,896	19.4	14.0	$12,808	86.6	77.6	473	459	482	MCAS	351	44.7	50	67	52	51	28	71	40	29	90	73	61
113	Haverhill	7,452	18.3	14.5	$12,301	74.4	67.4	513	494	511	PARCC	296	53.1	51	47	42	38	32	44	42	28	87	67	64
114	Lowell	14,416	18.9	13.8	$13,851	78.8	76.9	465	446	491	PARCC	350	55.3	48	53	44	36	19	46	45	20	84	69	63
115	Revere	7,451	20.1	14.1	$14,165	78.7	66.1	429	425	460	PARCC	305	61.7	54	61	61	56	47	62	43	40	84	68	68
116	Malden	6,623	20.7	14.5	$13,643	82.9	75.9	455	444	507	PARCC	490	41.6	40	45	42	32	31	51	46	29	87	74	60
117	Randolph	2,823	18.1	11.5	$16,051	81.1	73.5	438	429	462	MCAS	108	46.1	40	53	52	43	29	66	42	22	87	68	63
118	Taunton	8,005	20.9	17.8	$12,260	88.7	64.0	495	475	501	PARCC	252	56.0	44	49	48	39	28	39	30	25	87	69	53
119	Wareham	2,461	16.6	13.0	$14,567	76.4	63.0	479	452	483	MCAS	83	34.5	39	48	51	46	48	66	34	23	85	65	45
120	Boston	53,263	18.2	13.7	$19,246	72.4	70.0	434	431	466	PARCC	3,131	49.4	33	40	43	40	18	42	30	13	83	66	52
121	Everett	7,078	19.3	14.1	$13,259	76.7	66.5	437	415	439	PARCC	188	31.7	46	51	48	41	25	54	38	26	84	55	56
122	Lynn	15,299	20.0	14.2	$13,691	75.3	60.3	446	430	458	PARCC	313	39.7	38	42	53	43	36	46	42	34	79	56	46
123	Brockton	16,970	19.9	15.9	$14,214	79.1	70.6	440	428	453	PARCC	315	33.0	29	35	34	30	17	47	33	17	86	60	57
124	Lawrence	13,857	19.1	13.6	$14,475	71.4	65.7	389	383	411	PARCC	250	23.7	33	47	34	32	16	38	41	20	72	49	40
125	Chelsea	6,338	23.3	15.1	$13,770	59.7	70.2	448	424	449	PARCC	212	31.1	25	45	17	24	7	30	21	8	63	40	35

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Methodology: We ranked the 125 school districts that lie within, or partially within, I-495. To compile the list, we collected the most recent available data provided on the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education website (profiles.doe.mass.edu). For districts that report multiple lower grade levels individually, a weighted average score was used. This year some schools took the PARCC test in grades three, five, and eight, while others took the MCAS; the test each district primarily used is noted below. To calculate the rankings, George Recck, director of the Math Resource Center at Babson College, compared each district’s data points to the overall average for all districts. He then applied a percentage weight to the standardized data for each district to create an aggregate “score” (we considered a smaller class size, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, and a higher rate of spending per pupil more desirable). The districts were ranked based on that score.