Summary:
Duxbury is a four-school district serving students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade — Chandler Elementary (PK–2), Alden School (3–5), Duxbury Middle (6–8), and Duxbury High (9–12) — with 2,694 students total and a district-wide ranking of 46th of 351 Massachusetts districts, in the 87th percentile with 4 stars.
Duxbury High is the largest school (808 students) and the academic anchor. Its 2025–26 rank is 44th of 353, in the 88th percentile with 4 stars, though 2024–25 was exceptional at 9th of 349, 97th percentile, 5 stars. Its 2025–26 proficiency rates — ELA 72.54%, math 75.65%, science 63.87% — run 21 to 32 points above the state, and its graduation rate is 99.1%, with a 0.5% dropout rate. Alden School is the only elementary with test data and is also strong: 2024–25 rank of 63rd of 906, 93rd percentile, 5 stars. Its standout result is 4th-grade math at 74.00%, well above the state's 43.20%. Families should note Alden's relative weakness is ELA, where it sits below the district average.
Duxbury Middle has the steadiest rankings (82nd to 85th percentile across three years) and strong ELA at 65.69%, but its all-grade math of 51.03% falls below the district's 57.84%, with 6th-grade math at 43.16%, only 0.57 points above the state. All three tested schools declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26, most sharply in science. Chandler Elementary has no test scores or rank because it serves PK–2 — a data gap, not a performance signal — though it has the highest per-student spending ($18,900) and highest student-teacher ratio (12.7). Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all four schools.
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