Summary:
North Andover, Massachusetts, has seven public schools serving roughly 4,205 students: five elementary schools (including one PK-K early childhood center), one middle school for grades 6-8, and one high school for grades 9-12. The North Andover district overall is rated 126 of 351, in the 64th percentile with 3 stars — but that single rating hides real differences between individual schools, so it pays to look school by school.
Academic standouts: Franklin has the strongest math results in the group at 61.83% proficient, about 10 points above the district and 21 points above the state. Annie L Sargent School leads in science at 56.14%. North Andover High posts the highest ELA score shown (49.16% in 10th grade), a 53.02% biology result, a 96.8% graduation rate, and a 1.8% dropout rate. North Andover Middle earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported years and sits well above the state in math.
Two schools deserve a closer look. Atkinson has the lowest scores in every subject and is the only school below state levels in all three — yet it also made the biggest gains, rising from 26.62% to 37.22% in ELA and from 1 star to 2 stars. Thomson is trending the other way, with its rank percentile slipping from 73 to 60 over three years. Anne Bradstreet Early Childhood Center serves PK-K and has no test scores. Spending and class size do not line up neatly with results: the highest-spending school has no test data, and the school with the smallest classes has the lowest scores.
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