About Dover-Sherborn School District
Dover-Sherborn School District is a public school system serving Norfolk County, Massachusetts, based in Dover. It serves 1,081 students across 2 schools spanning 6–12, and is classified as a rural: fringe district. By enrollment it is the #235 largest of Massachusetts’s 395 school systems.
Size and structure
Dover-Sherborn School District enrolls 1,081 students in 2 schools — an average of about 540 students per school. It serves grades 6–12 and ranks #235 of 395 statewide by enrollment.
Who the district serves
Student race and ethnicity in Dover-Sherborn School District, from the NCES Common Core of Data (1,081 students reported):
For economically-disadvantaged, English-learner, and special-education shares, plus school-by-school detail, see the federal sources in the full-data section.
Teachers & staff
Dover-Sherborn School District employs about 112 full-time-equivalent teachers for a student–teacher ratio of 9.7:1 — below the Massachusetts average of about 11.9:1, meaning comparatively smaller classes. Total district staff is roughly 182.
Counselor and librarian/media counts are not published at the district level in the current NCES release; see the federal full-data links for staffing detail.
How Massachusetts funds schools
District-level per-pupil spending and the local/state/federal revenue split for Dover-Sherborn School District are published in the federal school-finance files — see the full-data links below for the current figures.
Report card & state results
Massachusetts does not assign A–F letter grades; its DESE accountability system reports an accountability percentile (1–99) and a criterion-referenced classification of whether a district is meeting its targets, across achievement, growth, high-school completion, English-learner progress and chronic absenteeism. Look up Dover-Sherborn School District on the Massachusetts school and district report cards.
Accreditation status
The main voluntary K-12 accreditor for Massachusetts is NEASC (the New England Association of Schools and Colleges), an elective, membership-based process. Search Dover-Sherborn School District’s schools in the NEASC directory.
Dover-Sherborn School District vs. Massachusetts
See every Massachusetts district side by side in the Massachusetts directory.
Look up Dover-Sherborn School District’s full data
These official sources carry the district-level detail — finances, discipline, equity, test scores, boundaries. Direct links for this district (via its NCES ID):