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Find Out Where Tewksbury Ranks On List Of Best Places To Teach In MA

Niche, an education platform, also ranked the Districts With The Best Teachers In MA as part of its 2023 K-12 School & District Rankings.

Niche, an education platform, recently published its rankings of the Best Places to Teach in Massachusetts and the Districts with the Best Teachers in Massachusetts.
Niche, an education platform, recently published its rankings of the Best Places to Teach in Massachusetts and the Districts with the Best Teachers in Massachusetts. (Shutterstock )

TEWKSBURY, MA — Niche, an education platform, recently published its rankings of the Best Places to Teach in Massachusetts and the Districts with the Best Teachers in Massachusetts.

The rankings were part of the platform's 2023 K-12 School & District Rankings. Now in their ninth year, the rankings include updated data for 92,743 public schools, 30,112 private schools, and 11,820 school districts nationwide, according to Niche.

Niche said its rankings differ from others that rely almost exclusively on test scores and academic performance in that it also includes input from students, alumni and parents, as well as quantitative data from sources such as the U.S. Department of Education to evaluate teachers, resources and facilities.

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For its 2023 Best Places to Teach in Massachusetts rankings, Niche ranked 166 public school districts, evaluating each using data like average annual salary and student-teacher ratio.

For its 2023 Districts with the Best Teachers in Massachusetts rankings, Niche assigned a letter grade to each district's teachers and ranked a total of 238 districts.

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Tewksbury Public Schools ranked No. 111 on the list of Best Places to Teach in Massachusetts. Tewksbury teachers have an annual salary of $74,586 and the student-teacher ratio is 13:1.

Tewksbury Public School teachers, meanwhile, were given a letter grade of A-minus, and the district was ranked No. 107 on the list of Districts with the Best Teachers in Massachusetts.

Here are Niche's top 25 Best Places to Teach in Massachusetts, and the average annual teacher salary in each of those districts:

  1. Dover-Sherborn Regional School District, $103,440
  2. Hopkinton Public Schools, $94,714
  3. Wellesley Public Schools, $97,617
  4. Weston Public Schools, $103,748
  5. Westwood Public Schools, $97,183
  6. Foxborough Public Schools, $92,162
  7. Medfield Public Schools, $97,223
  8. Wayland Public Schools, $94,303
  9. Lynnfield Public Schools. $93,848
  10. Southborough Public Schools, $97,427
  11. Needham Public Schools, $90,119
  12. Public Schools of Brookline, $89,776
  13. Harvard Public Schools, $78,522
  14. Northborough Public Schools, $92,952
  15. Masconomet Public Schools, $96,677
  16. Newton Public Schools, $85,318
  17. Cambridge Public Schools, $86,972
  18. Westborough Public Schools, $76,122
  19. Bedford Public Schools, $92,745
  20. Natick Public Schools, $78,295
  21. Lexington Public Schools, $88,668
  22. Westford Public Schools, $84,657
  23. Hingham Public Schools, $90,129
  24. Shrewsbury Public Schools. $78,197
  25. Burlington Public Schools, $98,832

Here are Niche's top 25 Districts with the Best Teachers in Massachusetts, all of which received an A+ grade.

  1. Hopkington Public Schools
  2. Dover-Sherborn Regional School District
  3. Weston Public Schools
  4. Wellesley Public Schools
  5. Medfield Public Schools
  6. Westwood Public Schools
  7. Wayland Public Schools
  8. Hingham Public Schools
  9. Harvard Public Schools
  10. Needham Public Schools
  11. Sharon Public Schools
  12. Westborough Public Schools
  13. Westford Public Schools
  14. Southborough Public Schools
  15. Lenox Public Schools
  16. Lynnfield Public Schools
  17. Public Schools of Brookline
  18. Newton Public Schools
  19. Natick Public Schools
  20. Lexington Public Schools
  21. Masconomet Public Schools
  22. Northborough Public Schools
  23. Norwell Public Schools
  24. Cohasset Public Schools
  25. Belmont Public Schools


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