List of school districts in Massachusetts
This is a list of school districts in Massachusetts.
The majority of school districts in the state are dependent on town governments. Some are dependent on city governments, two are dependent on county governments, and Essex Agricultural and Technical High School is directly a part of the state government. The U.S. Census Bureau does not consider any of these to be independent governments. It does consider the regional school districts, regional vocational-technical school districts, and independent vocational schools to be independent governments.
Local school districts
Non-operating local school districts, which are those districts that do not operate any school facilities and where all students attend school in regional academic school districts, are not listed.A
- Abington School Department
- Acushnet School Department
- Agawam School Department
- Amesbury School Department
- Amherst School Department
- Andover Public Schools
- Arlington School Department
- Ashland School Department
- Attleborough School Department
- Auburn School Department
- Avon School District
B
- Barnstable Public School District
- Bedford Public Schools
- Belchertown School Department
- Bellingham School Department
- Belmont Public Schools
- Berkley School Department
- Beverly School Department
- Billerica School Department
- Boston Public Schools
- Bourne School Department
- Boxford School Department
- Braintree Public Schools
- Brewster School Department
- Brimfield School Department
- Brockton School Department
- Brookfield School Department
- Brookline Public Schools
- Burlington Public Schools
C
- Cambridge School Department
- Canton School Department
- Carlisle School Department
- Carver School Department
- Chelmsford School Department
- Chelsea School Department
- Chicopee School Department
- Clarksburg School Department
- Clinton School Department
- Cohasset School Department
- Concord School Department
- Conway School Department
D
- Danvers School Department
- Dartmouth School Department
- Dedham School Department
- Deerfield School Department
- Douglas School Department
- Dover School Department
- Dracut School Department
- Duxbury School Department
E
- East Bridgewater School Department
- East Longmeadow School Department
- Eastham School Department
- Easthampton School Department
- Easton School Department
- Edgartown School Department
- Erving School Department
- Everett School Department
F
- Fairhaven School Department
- Fall River School Department
- Falmouth School Department
- Fitchburg School Department
- Florida School Department
- Foxborough Public Schools
- Framingham School Department
- Franklin School Department
G
- Gardner School Department
- Georgetown School Department
- Gloucester School Department
- Gosnold School Department
- Grafton School Department
- Granby School Department
- Greenfield School Department
H
- Hadley School Department
- Halifax School Department
- Hancock School Department
- Hanover School Department
- Harvard School Department
- Hatfield School Department
- Haverhill Public Schools
- Hingham School Department
- Holbrook School Department
- Holland School Department
- Holliston School Department
- Holyoke School Department
- Hopedale School Department
- Hopkinton School Department
- Hudson School Department
- Hull School Department
I
- Ipswich School Department
K
- Kingston School Department
L
- Lawrence Public Schools
- Lee School Department
- Leicester School Department
- Lenox School Department
- Leominster School Department
- Leverett School Department
- Lexington Public Schools
- Lincoln School Department
- Littleton School Department
- Longmeadow School Department
- Lowell Public Schools
- Ludlow School Department
- Lunenburg School Department
- Lynn School Department
- Lynnfield School Department
M
- Malden School Department
- Mansfield School Department
- Marblehead School Department
- Marion School Department
- Marlborough School Department
- Marshfield School Department
- Mashpee School Department
- Mattapoisett School Department
- Maynard School Department
- Medfield Public Schools
- Medford Public Schools
- Medway Public Schools
- Melrose School Department
- Methuen School Department
- Middleborough School Department
- Middleton School Department
- Milford School Department
- Millbury School Department
- Millis School Department
- Milton School Department
- Monson School Department
N
- Nahant School Department
- Nantucket School Department
- Natick School Department
- Needham School Department
- New Bedford Public Schools
- Newburyport School Department
- Newton Public Schools
- Norfolk School Department
- North Adams School Department, Florida and Monroe
- North Andover Public Schools
- North Attleborough School Department
- North Brookfield School Department
- North Reading School Department
- Northampton School Department
- Northborough School Department
- Northbridge Public Schools
- Norton School Department
- Norwell School Department
- Norwood School Department
O
- Oak Bluffs School Department
- Orange School Department
- Orleans School Department
- Oxford School Department
P
- Palmer School Department
- Peabody School Department
- Pelham School Department
- Pembroke School Department
- Petersham School Department
- Pittsfield School Department
- Plainville School Department
- Plymouth School Department
- Plympton School Department
- Provincetown School Department
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R
- Randolph School Department
- Reading School Department
- Revere Public Schools
- Richmond School Department
- Rochester School Department
- Rockland School Department
- Rockport School Department
- Rowe School Department
S
- Salem School Department
- Sandwich School Department
- Saugus School Department
- Savoy School Department
- Scituate School Department
- Seekonk School Department
- Sharon School Department
- Sherborn School Department
- Shrewsbury School Department
- Shutesbury School Department
- Somerset School Department
- Somerville School Department
- South Hadley Public Schools
- Southampton School Department
- Southborough School Department
- Southbridge School Department
- Springfield Public Schools
- Stoneham School Department
- Stoughton School Department
- Sturbridge School Department
- Sudbury Public Schools
- Sunderland School Department
- Sutton School Department
- Swampscott School Department
- Swansea School Department
T
- Taunton School Department
- Tewksbury School Department
- Tisbury School Department
- Topsfield School Department
- Truro School Department
- Tyngsborough School Department
U
- Uxbridge School Department
W
- Wakefield School Department
- Wales School Department
- Walpole School Department
- Waltham School Department
- Ware School Department
- Wareham School Department
- Watertown Public Schools
- Wayland School Department
- Webster School Department
- Wellesley School Department
- Wellfleet School Department
- West Boylston School Department
- West Bridgewater School Department
- West Springfield School Department
- Westborough School Department
- Westfield School Department
- Westford School Department
- Westhampton School Department
- Weston School Department
- Westport School Department
- Westwood School Department
- Weymouth School Department
- Whately School Department
- Williamsburg School Department
- Wilmington School Department
- Winchendon School Department
- Winchester School Department
- Winthrop School Department
- Woburn School Department
- Worcester School Department
- Worthington School Department
- Wrentham School Department
Regional academic school districts
A
- Acton-Boxborough Regional School District
- Amherst-Pelham Regional School District
- Ashburnham-Westminster Regional School District
- Athol-Royalston Regional School District
- Ayer-Shirley Regional School District
B
- Berkshire Hills Regional School District
- Berlin-Boylston Regional School District
- Blackstone-Millville Regional School District
- Bridgewater-Raynham Regional School District
C
- Central Berkshire Regional School District
- Chesterfield-Goshen Regional School District
- Concord-Carlisle Regional School District
D
- Dennis-Yarmouth Regional School District
- Dighton-Rehoboth Regional School District
- Dover-Sherborn Regional School District
- Dudley-Charlton Regional School District
F
- Farmington River Regional School District
- Lakeville Public Schools
- Frontier Regional School District
G
- Gateway Regional School District
- Gill-Montague Regional School District
- Groton-Dunstable Regional School District
H
- Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District
- Hampden-Wilbraham Regional School District
- Hampshire Regional School District
- Hawlemont Regional School District
- Hoosac Valley Regional School District
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M
- Manchester-Essex Regional School District
- Martha's Vineyard Regional School District
- Masconomet Regional School District
- Mendon-Upton Regional School District
- Mohawk Trail Regional School District, Colrain, Hawley, Heath, Plainfield, and Shelburne; also serving Rowe
- Monomoy Regional School District
- Mount Greylock Regional School District and New Ashford
N
- Narragansett Regional School District
- Nashoba Regional School District
- Nauset Public Schools and Truro
- New Salem-Wendell Regional School District
- Middlesex Regional School District
- Northborough-Southborough Regional School District
O
P
Q
- Quabbin Regional School District
- Quaboag Regional School District
R
- Ralph C. Mahar Regional School District
S
- Silver Lake Regional School District
- Somerset-Berkley Regional School District
- Southern Berkshire Regional School District
- Southwick-Tolland-Granville Regional School District
- Spencer-East Brookfield Regional School District
T
- Tantasqua Regional School District
- Triton Regional School District
U
- Up-Island Regional School District
W
- Wachusett Regional School District
- Whitman-Hanson Regional School District
Regional vocational-technical school districts
A
- Assabet Valley Regional Vocational Technical School District
B
- Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical High School
- Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical School District
- Bristol-Plymouth Regional Technical School
C
E
F
- Franklin County Regional Vocational Technical School
G
- Greater Fall River Regional Vocational Technical District
- Lawrence Technical School
- Lowell Technical High School
- Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational-Technical High School
M
N
- Nashoba Valley Technical School District
- Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School
- Northern Berkshire Vocational Regional School District
O
- Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School Note: Freetown and Lakeville share a district and Freetown is not a member town and students from Freetown are limited to about 90.
P
- Pathfinder Regional Technical High School
S
- Shawsheen Valley Technical High School
- South Middlesex Regional Vocational Technical School District
- South Shore Vocational Technical High School
- Southeastern Regional Vocational Technical High School
- Southern Worcester County Regional Vocational Technical District
T
U
W
Independent vocational
N
County agricultural school districts
B
- Bristol County Agricultural High School
N
Charter school districts
Following the Education Reform Act of 1993, the state Department of Education authorized two types of "charter" schools, public schools outside the control of any school committee. Commonwealth Charter Schools are funded through money deducted by the state from its aid payments to the school districts that would otherwise be responsible for the school's students; Horace Mann Charter Schools are founded with the permission of the school districts in which they are physically located, and funded by their "parent" district.A
- Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public School District
- Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter Public School District
- Advanced Math and Science Academy Charter School District
- Alma del Mar Charter School District
- Argosy Collegiate Charter School District
- Atlantis Charter School District
B
- Baystate Academy Charter Public School District
- Benjamin Banneker Charter Public School District
- Benjamin Franklin Classical Public Charter School District
- Berkshire Arts and Technology Charter Public School District
- Boston Collegiate Charter School District
- Boston Day and Evening Academy Charter School District
- Boston Green Academy Horace Mann Charter School District
- Boston Preparatory Charter Public School District
- Boston Renaissance Charter Public School District
- Bridge Boston Charter School District
- Brooke Charter School District
C
- Cape Cod Lighthouse Charter School District
- Christa McAuliffe Regional Charter Public School District
- City on a Hill Charter Public School District
- Codman Academy Charter Public School District
- Collegiate Charter School of Lowell District
- Community Charter School of Cambridge School District
- Community Day Charter Public School District - Gateway
- Community Day Charter Public School District - Prospect
- Community Day Charter Public School District - R. Kingman Webster
- Conservatory Lab Charter School District
D
- Dudley Street Neighborhood Charter School District
E
- Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers Horace Mann Charter District
- Excel Academy Charter School District
F
- Four Rivers Charter Public School District
- Foxborough Regional Charter School District
- Francis W. Parker Charter Essential School District
G
- Global Learning Charter Public District
H
- Hampden Charter School of Science East District
- Hampden Charter School of Science West District
- Helen Y. Davis Leadership Academy Charter Public District
- Hill View Montessori Charter Public School District
- Hilltown Cooperative Charter Public School District
- Holyoke Community Public
I
- Innovation Academy Public School District
K
- KIPP Academy Boston Public School District
- KIPP Academy Lynn Public School District
L
- Lawrence Family Development Public School District
- Learning First Charter Public School District
- Libertas Academy Charter School District
- Lowell Community Charter Public School District
- Lowell Middlesex Academy Public School District
M
- MATCH Charter Public School District
- Map Academy Charter School District
- Marblehead Community Public School District
- Martha's Vineyard Public School District
- Martin Luther King Jr. Charter School of Excellence School District
- Mystic Valley Regional Public School District
N
- Neighborhood House Public School District
- New Heights Charter School of Brockton District
O
- Old Sturbridge Academy Charter Public School District
P
- Paulo Freire Social Justice Charter School District
- Phoenix Academy Public Charter High School Lawrence District
- Phoenix Academy Public Charter High School Springfield District
- Phoenix Charter Academy School District
- Pioneer Charter School of Science School District
- Pioneer Charter School of Science II District
- Pioneer Valley Chinese Immersion Charter School
- Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter Public School District
- Prospect Hill Academy Public School District
R
- Rising Tide Public School District
- River Valley Public School District
- Roxbury Preparatory Public School District
S
- Salem Academy Public School District
- Sizer School: A North Central Charter Essential District
- South Shore Charter Public School District
- Springfield International Charter District
- Springfield Preparatory Charter School District
- Sturgis Charter Public School District
U
- UP Academy Charter School of Boston District
- UP Academy Charter School of Dorchester District
V
- Veritas Preparatory Charter School District
Independent public
M
Commonwealth virtual
G
- Greater Commonwealth Virtual District
T
- TEC Connections Academy Commonwealth Virtual School District
Bureau Of Institutional Schools
I
- Institutional Schools
Superintendency unions
Each superintendency union serves multiple school districts with the same superintendent.- Superintendency Union 3
- Superintendency Union 19
- Superintendency Union 26
- Superintendency Union 28
- Superintendency Union 31
- Superintendency Union 38
- Superintendency Union 43
- Superintendency Union 50
- Superintendency Union 54
- Superintendency Union 55
- Superintendency Union 58
- Superintendency Union 61
- Superintendency Union 66
- Superintendency Union 70
- Superintendency Union 73