Highest Spending Districts in Massachusetts

Reviewed by PlainSchools Editorial, K12 Schools Editorial Team · June 7, 2026

Per-pupil expenditure ranking. Districts with 500+ enrollment. Data from NCES F-33 Finance Survey.

$90,848

Top Spender

Rockland

$50,277

Avg Per-Pupil

Districts Listed

500+

Min Enrollment

#	District	Per-Pupil $	Enrollment	Schools
1.	Rockland Rockland	$90,848	2,187	5
2.	Bristol County Agricultural Dighton	$86,828	549	1
3.	Cape Cod Regional Vocational Technical Harwich	$85,217	666	1
4.	Attleboro Attleboro	$83,041	5,963	12
5.	Lincoln Lincoln	$76,523	1,032	3
6.	Millbury Millbury	$73,038	1,638	3
7.	Sharon Sharon	$72,627	3,591	6
8.	Watertown Watertown	$68,134	2,699	5
9.	Waltham Waltham	$65,788	5,703	10
10.	Minuteman Regional Vocational Technical Lexington	$63,783	691	1
11.	Gardner Gardner	$62,174	2,404	4
12.	Wareham Wareham	$61,846	2,057	4
13.	Brookline Brookline	$60,665	7,116	13
14.	Easton North Easton	$59,607	3,441	4
15.	Pentucket West Newbury	$59,291	2,261	6
16.	Easthampton Easthampton	$58,679	1,426	2
17.	Belmont Belmont	$58,674	4,507	6
18.	Westport Westport	$56,201	1,459	3
19.	Amesbury Amesbury	$54,817	1,809	5
20.	Cambridge Cambridge	$53,724	6,746	17
21.	Somerville Somerville	$52,692	4,884	11
22.	Northbridge Whitinsville	$52,219	1,970	3
23.	Orange Orange	$51,815	531	2
24.	Tewksbury Tewksbury	$51,599	3,278	7
25.	Central Berkshire Dalton	$48,793	1,546	5
26.	Boston Roxbury	$47,393	46,367	109
27.	Martha's Vineyard Vineyard Haven	$41,931	769	1
28.	Manchester Essex Regional Manchester	$41,861	1,243	4
29.	Harvard Harvard	$41,130	1,044	2
30.	Fall River Fall River	$40,714	10,521	17
31.	Weymouth Weymouth	$39,513	5,676	11
32.	Nauset Orleans	$37,173	1,328	2
33.	Weston Weston	$37,082	2,022	5
34.	Arlington Arlington	$36,380	6,047	11
35.	Acton-Boxborough Acton	$35,574	5,197	9
36.	Nantucket Nantucket	$35,158	1,725	4
37.	Marblehead Marblehead	$34,614	2,672	5
38.	Hull Hull	$34,077	787	3
39.	Amherst Amherst	$33,961	1,054	3
40.	Southern Berkshire Sheffield	$33,954	618	4
41.	Springfield Springfield	$33,774	23,873	66
42.	Ashland Ashland	$33,740	2,925	5
43.	Westborough Westborough	$33,617	3,861	6
44.	Foxborough Foxborough	$33,604	2,479	5
45.	Greater Lawrence Regional Vocational Technical Andover	$33,508	1,692	1
46.	Bridgewater-Raynham Bridgewater	$33,490	5,521	8
47.	Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical Canton	$33,356	920	1
48.	Mohawk Trail Shelburne Falls	$33,270	797	4
49.	Gloucester Gloucester	$33,216	2,849	8
50.	Saugus Saugus	$33,133	2,502	4

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Methodology

Per-pupil expenditure data comes from the NCES F-33 Finance Survey. Only districts with 500 or more students are included to ensure meaningful comparisons. Spending figures include all current operational expenditures divided by total enrollment.

Read our methodology — how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.