Lexington Schools Near the Top of Best Schools List

The Lexington Public Schools ranked 4th in the Boston Magazine Best Schools list in the September 2013 issue.

Lexington was joined in the top 10 by:

1. Dover
2. Sherborn
3. Lexington
4. Carlisle
5. Boxborough
6. Concord
7. Lincoln
8. Westford
9. Wayland 
10. Wellesley

According to Boston Magazine, Lexington ranked third for highest overall SAT scores with a total of 1,866. Wellesley topped that category with 1,885.

Lexington also ranked third in the highest percentage of students achieving proficiency (scoring 3-5) on AP exams with a total of 96.1 percent. 

Other Lexington statistics reported by the magazine include:

• Graduation rate – 95.9 percent
• Percent going to college – 86.5 percent
• Per pupil expenditures -- $16,358

“To assemble this year’s Best Schools list, we spent months compiling numbers—released by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education—from 147 municipalities in Greater Boston.

"The schools in the cities and towns that topped our proprietary ranking stood out across 20 different categories, including student-to-teacher ratio, average class size, expenditures per pupil, rate of college matriculation, and results on tests such as the SAT and the MCAS.”

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