Summary:
Zip code 01740 covers Bolton, MA and contains two public schools in the Nashoba district: Nashoba Regional (high school, grades 9–12, enrollment 806) and Florence Sawyer School (PK–8, enrollment 734), together serving 1,540 students across the PK–12 pipeline, with Florence Sawyer covering the middle grades because there is no standalone middle school. Both are 4-star schools, and the district is ranked 69 of 351 schools, at the 80th percentile. Free/reduced-price lunch is not reported for either school, so that context is unavailable.
Nashoba Regional is the more consistently ranked school, sitting in the 81st–86th percentile over three years and in the top 14% in 2025–26 (rank 50 of 353). Its 2024–25 graduation rate is 95.6% at the school vs 94.2% in the district, and its dropout rate is 1.5%, equal to the district. Its 2025–26 MCAS results are well above state: ELA 10th grade 73.5 vs state 45.48, Math 10th 65.66 vs 43.73, Science 10th 61.38 vs 40.5, and Biology End of Course 60.31 vs 37.68. The ELA 10th-grade score is the highest reported high-school subject score here, 28.02 points above state.
Florence Sawyer School is also strong but more variable, moving from the 73rd to 85th to 81st percentile across three years. Its 2025–26 all-grade scores are above state in ELA (59.18 vs 40.03), Math (61.27 vs 41.11), Science (65.12 vs 40.98), and 8th-grade Civics (65.38 vs 39.77). Grade-level peaks include 8th-grade Math 74.36, 7th-grade Math 69.88, and 5th-grade ELA 70.21. The clear outlier is 6th-grade Math at 36.62% proficient, below the state’s 42.59 and far below the district’s 51.33. Student-teacher ratios are similar (Nashoba Regional 12.0; Florence Sawyer School 12.7), and 2020–21 per-student spending is close ($18,228 vs $18,584).
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