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Shrewsbury School System Tops 'Best Bang for the Buck' List

Shrewsbury considered affordable, with a good school system, according to these results from NerdWallet.

They’re calling them hidden gems. A community where not only a house is affordable, but the education system is also of a high quality. NerdWallet recently released its findings on a data-supported school quality and cost of living survey of Massachusetts towns.

Shrewsbury schools ranked at no. 11 in the list. With a median house cost of $363,700, 98.1 percent of tenth graders scored at the advanced level on MCAS, and 93.6 percent of students graduate high school. 

NerdWallet used such factors as standardized test scores, college readiness and class size to achieve its list. Some 226 school districts in Massachusetts were evaluated, and the data was retrieved from the U.S. Census Bureau or the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.

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