Summary:
Somerset, Massachusetts is served by 5 public schools — 3 elementary schools (PK/K–5), 1 middle school (6–8), and 1 high school (9–12) — enrolling about 2,516 students across two districts: the Somerset Berkley Regional School District, which covers the high school, and the Somerset district, which covers the other four schools.
Academically, North Elementary is the standout: it ranked 315 of 899 elementary schools (65th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 and beat the state in ELA (+5.74 points), math (+11.13), and science (+7.55), up dramatically from the 47th percentile three years earlier. South is the most polarized school — all-grades math is 50.82% versus the state's 41.11%, but ELA is 31.45% versus 40.03%. Chace Street has the lowest current rank (495 of 899, 45th percentile) and is the only school with all-grades math below state (35.33% versus 41.11%). Somerset Middle School is mixed — above state in math, science, and 8th grade civics, below in ELA — and has slipped from the 70th to the 61st percentile. Somerset Berkley Regional High School posts above-state MCAS results, a 95.9% graduation rate, and a 2.3% dropout rate, alongside a reported 0% Biology EOC proficiency that is far below the state's 37.68% and should be read with caution.
Across the city, ELA declined at every school and science at four of five from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026; math was more mixed. Spending and class size show no simple link to results: South has the lowest student-teacher ratio (10.2) and highest per-pupil spending ($17,960) but the lowest ELA, while North has 12.8 and $16,113 with the strongest scores. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank for all five schools, so economic disadvantage could not be analyzed here.
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