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:

Percentage of Students at Each Performance Level
Grade and Subject Advanced Proficient Needs
Improvement
Warning/
Failing
Average
Raw/Scaled
Score
Students
Included
GRADE 03 - READING NA 81 18 2 33 364
GRADE 04 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 11 60 27 3 245 357
GRADE 04 - MATHEMATICS 14 36 42 8 241 359
GRADE 06 - MATHEMATICS 11 38 32 19 237 413
GRADE 07 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 11 65 20 4 246 381
GRADE 08 - HISTORY 2 22 54 22 230 389
GRADE 08 - MATHEMATICS 14 29 38 19 237 389
GRADE 10 - ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS 27 50 16 7 248 281
GRADE 10 - MATHEMATICS 19 31 32 19 240 281

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