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Massachusetts school safety

City and district rankings from federal incident data · 2021-22 collection

1,843SCHOOLS

1,041WITH TRUSTED DATA

50RANKED CITIES

Safest ranked cities in Massachusetts

Percentile is against all ranked U.S. cities (higher = safer). Only cities with ≥5 trustworthy-data schools are ranked. Home value is Zillow's ZHVI.

#	CITY	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS	HOME VALUE
1	Lexington	99	5 of 11	$1,626,351
2	Needham	97	7 of 8	$1,589,517
3	Beverly	95	5 of 8	$779,753
4	Canton	95	6 of 8	$820,574
5	Weston	94	5 of 5	$2,311,502
6	Methuen	94	5 of 5	$635,202
7	North Andover	93	5 of 8	$826,809
8	Plymouth	92	12 of 15	$665,167
9	Framingham	91	10 of 16	$682,124
10	Chicopee	90	9 of 16	$325,528
11	Franklin	89	8 of 12	$717,119
12	Acton	88	5 of 8	$891,185
13	Westfield	88	8 of 12	$394,388
14	North Adams	87	5 of 5	$263,078
15	Worcester	85	41 of 49	$443,387
16	Randolph	85	5 of 6	$600,385
17	Sudbury	85	5 of 6	$1,183,449
18	Norwood	85	6 of 8	$750,936
19	Malden	84	7 of 8	$694,637
20	Quincy	82	7 of 19	$690,382
21	Cambridge	81	9 of 20	$1,044,286
22	Roslindale	81	6 of 8	—
23	Somerville	80	8 of 11	$941,330
24	Braintree	80	5 of 10	$745,803
25	Waltham	77	9 of 10	$841,319
26	Boston	77	15 of 17	$788,881
27	West Springfield	76	5 of 10	$371,173
28	Wilbraham	75	5 of 5	$495,590
29	Fall River	74	18 of 19	$459,250
30	Dorchester	74	22 of 28	—
31	East Boston	74	10 of 12	—
32	Revere	74	7 of 11	$624,318
33	Chelsea	73	9 of 12	$531,853
34	Swampscott	73	5 of 5	$847,308
35	Lowell	69	23 of 29	$492,699
36	Attleboro	67	6 of 12	$548,292
37	Sharon	66	5 of 6	$897,632
38	Roxbury	63	16 of 18	—
39	Lawrence	63	5 of 31	$521,895
40	Lynn	63	24 of 26	$595,053
41	Holyoke	62	12 of 14	$337,618
42	Brockton	58	17 of 25	$516,482
43	Leominster	57	6 of 11	$477,834
44	Hyde Park	57	8 of 9	—
45	Jamaica Plain	57	8 of 9	—
46	Marlborough	52	8 of 9	$590,383
47	Brighton	47	5 of 7	—
48	New Bedford	44	22 of 28	$449,676
49	Haverhill	42	6 of 17	$558,210
50	Springfield	31	57 of 70	$308,418

Safest ranked districts

#	DISTRICT	SAFETY PCTL	SCHOOLS
1	Needham	96	7 of 8
2	Dighton-Rehoboth	96	5 of 5
3	Plymouth	94	10 of 13
4	Beverly	94	5 of 8
5	Canton	93	5 of 6
6	Weston	92	5 of 5
7	Methuen	92	5 of 5
8	North Andover	90	5 of 8
9	Framingham	87	8 of 14
10	Pentucket	86	6 of 6
11	Chicopee	86	8 of 15
12	Acton-Boxborough	85	5 of 9
13	Westfield	85	8 of 12
14	Randolph	82	5 of 6
15	Worcester	82	40 of 46
16	Franklin	81	6 of 10
17	Cambridge	81	7 of 17
18	Norwood	81	6 of 8
19	Malden	79	6 of 7
20	Quincy	77	7 of 19
21	Somerville	75	8 of 11
22	Braintree	75	5 of 10
23	Chelsea	74	8 of 11
24	Fall River	72	15 of 16
25	Waltham	71	9 of 10

Every Massachusetts city with schools

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