Summary:
Swampscott is a coastal town north of Boston served by three public schools — Swampscott Elementary School (K–4), Swampscott Middle (5–8), and Swampscott High (9–12) — with a combined enrollment of 2,094 students and no alternative schools. The Swampscott district ranks 91st of 351 in Massachusetts, placing it in the 74th percentile with a 4-star district rating.
Among the three, Swampscott High is the strongest, ranking 55th of 353 high schools at the 84th percentile with 4 stars, alongside a 94.5% graduation rate and 1.8% dropout rate. It rebounded from the 70th percentile in 2024–2025. Swampscott Middle ranks 125th of 478 at the 74th percentile with 4 stars, up from 3 stars the year before. Swampscott Elementary School scores above the state in nearly every reported measure, but ranks lower at 345th of 899 (62nd percentile, 3 stars), suggesting solid rather than exceptional results relative to other Massachusetts elementary schools.
Science and civics stand out district-wide: 10th-grade science is 71.60% proficient versus 40.50% state, and 8th-grade civics is 68.03% versus 39.77% state. Of 32 school-level test comparisons, 30 exceed the state average; only 4th-grade math (43.05% vs. 43.20%, essentially tied) and 7th-grade ELA (36.08% vs. 39.91%) fall short. The high school improved markedly year over year, with 10th-grade math up from 49.10% to 62.07%. Student-teacher ratios are similar and favorable across all three schools (10.8 to 11.6). Per-student spending is reported only for 2020–2021 and only for the middle ($17,795) and high ($17,420) schools, and free/reduced-price lunch data is blank for all three, so that context cannot be analyzed here.
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