Best High Schools in Zip Code 01913

ZIP code 01913 is home to two high schools, both in the Amesbury district and both serving grades 9–12: Amesbury High, with 481 students, and Amesbury Innovation High School, with 50. Together they enroll 531 high school students, with Amesbury High making up about 90.6% of that total and being roughly 9.6 times larger. The district as a whole ranks 245 of 351, at the 30th percentile with 2 stars — a figure that sits between the two schools rather than describing either one.

Amesbury High is the academic standout. In 2025–2026 it ranks 116 of 353 schools, at the 67th percentile with 3 stars, and it has stayed in the top third of Massachusetts high schools for three straight years (106 of 348 and 117 of 349 in prior years). Its 2025–2026 MCAS proficiency is above the state in every reported subject: ELA 10th grade 48.65% versus 45.48%, Math 10th grade 50.45% versus 43.73%, Science 10th grade 51.4% versus 40.5%, and Biology End of Course 46.32% versus 37.68%. Science is its widest margin, at +10.90 points in Science 10th grade and +8.64 points in Biology. Its graduation rate is 85.5%, above the district's 82.1%, and its dropout rate is 0.9%.

Amesbury Innovation High School stands in sharp contrast academically: it ranks 345 of 353, at the 2nd percentile with 0 stars, with 2025–2026 proficiency of 0% in ELA and Math 10th grade and 10% in Biology End of Course. Yet its non-academic figures look comparatively favorable — an 82.4% graduation rate, a 0.0% dropout rate (versus 0.9% at Amesbury High and 0.7% district-wide), a lower student-teacher ratio of 8.6 versus 10.8, and higher per-student spending of $23,081 versus $18,891 in 2020–2021 data. With only 50 students, these rates can swing widely, and free/reduced-lunch data are not reported here, so read the comparisons descriptively rather than as cause and effect.