Overview of the North Attleboro School System
North Attleboro, Massachusetts is located in Bristol County and has a student population of approximately 4,702 students. The school system is divided into one early learning center, six elementary schools, one middle school and one high school. Kindergarten classes are run on a half-day basis and are located in each of the six elementary schools.
The majority of the students populating North Attleboro are white (96%) with 1.4% of the population being Asian, 1.1% being African American, less than 1% being Hispanic and less than 1% being Native American. There is a very small portion of the population that has Limited English Proficiency (0.1%) and a little more than 15% of the population that requires Special Education services. Students who are eligible for free or reduced price lunch are 7.5% of the district.
Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) scores for North Attleboro are in the average range for the state. As of Spring of 2002 North Attleboro had the following MCAS results:
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Percentage of Students at Each Performance
Level
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| Grade and Subject | Advanced | Proficient | Needs Improvement |
Warning/ Failing |
Average Raw/Scaled Score |
Students Included |
| NA | 81 | 18 | 2 | 33 | 364 | |
| 11 | 60 | 27 | 3 | 245 | 357 | |
| 14 | 36 | 42 | 8 | 241 | 359 | |
| 11 | 38 | 32 | 19 | 237 | 413 | |
| 11 | 65 | 20 | 4 | 246 | 381 | |
| 2 | 22 | 54 | 22 | 230 | 389 | |
| 14 | 29 | 38 | 19 | 237 | 389 | |
| 27 | 50 | 16 | 7 | 248 | 281 | |
| 19 | 31 | 32 | 19 | 240 | 281 | |