Summary:
ZIP code 01950 covers Newburyport, Massachusetts, and contains five schools serving roughly 2,395 students: three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school. Four of them — Newburyport High, Francis T Bresnahan Elementary, Rupert A Nock Middle, and Edward G. Molin Elementary School — belong to the Newburyport district (2,107 students). The fifth, River Valley Charter School, is its own River Valley Charter (District) and enrolls 288 students.
Newburyport High is the flagship. It ranks 64th of 353 high schools in 2025-2026 (82nd percentile, 4 stars), up from 91st in 2023-2024, with a 98.0% graduation rate and 1.0% dropout rate. Its proficiency beats the state in every subject — ELA 64.91 vs. 45.48, math 60.12 vs. 43.73, science 62.11 vs. 40.50, biology 56.28 vs. 37.68 — and it spends the least per student of the five schools ($17,791). Rupert A Nock Middle is close behind, ranked 99th of 478 middle schools (79th percentile, 4 stars) and above state in ELA (59.18 vs. 40.03) and math (52.87 vs. 41.11). River Valley Charter shows the most uneven profile: strong all-grade ELA (63.16) and science (73.44), and standout upper grades such as 8th math 81.82, but far weaker lower-grade math such as 4th grade 23.33.
Francis T Bresnahan Elementary posted the biggest year-over-year jump — ELA from 43.38 to 59.48 and math from 43.38 to 63.25 — and now leads the ZIP in elementary math. Molin is the watchlist school: its rank percentile slipped from 65th to 52nd over three years, and ELA (39.30) is slightly below state, though math and science remain above it. Note that free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, spending figures are from 2020-2021, Bresnahan has no recent rank, and ranks come from separate high, middle, and elementary lists, so they should not be compared directly.
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