Public Schools in Massachusetts
1,831 schools · 397 districts · 913,735 students
Largest Schools in Massachusetts
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Brockton High
Brockton
Lowell High
Lowell
Lawrence High School
Lawrence
TEC Connections Academy Commonwealth Virtual School
East Walpole
New Bedford High
New Bedford
Taunton High
Taunton
Framingham High School
Framingham
B M C Durfee High
Fall River
Boston Latin School
Boston
Lexington High
Lexington
Frequently Asked Questions
Massachusetts has 1,831 public schools across 397 districts, serving 913,735 students.
The largest school in Massachusetts is Brockton High with 3,679 students. Massachusetts has 1,831 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 50%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.