Triton Regional School District

Newbury, Rowley and Salisbury are one school district, not two that resemble each other. The state reports a single set of figures for them — the same MCAS percentile, the same rank, the same spending per pupil — and the schools below belong to the district rather than to either town. Whatever separates these towns, it is not the district.

A 4BR runs $575k in Salisbury and $900k in Newbury — $325k, or 1.57×, for a comparable house in the same school district. That gap buys no difference in the district at all, which makes it about as clean a demonstration as this site has of how much of a house price is the address rather than the schooling.

What the same district costs in each town

The schools column is missing on purpose: it would be the same value repeated. Every town links through to its own full page.

#Town4BR house2BR condoTax rateEst. billCommuteRail
1Salisbury$575kT1$330k$11.00T2≈$6,30074 minT4None
2Rowley$800kT2$460k$13.00T3≈$10,40063 minT4Rail · 64 min
3Newbury$900kT3$510k$10.50T2≈$9,50068 minT4None

How the district performs

School tierTier 3 · solid schools Tier 3
MCAS percentile66th
Growth percentile54th
Graduation rate92.9%
Pupils2,312
Spending per pupil$24,897
State accountabilitySubstantial progress toward targets

The district’s schools

Every school the district runs. Which building a child attends is the district’s business and often follows the town, so this is not a list of choices — it is what the district is.

SchoolGrades
Pine GrovePK–6
Newbury ElementaryPK–6
Salisbury ElementaryPK–6
Triton Regional Middle School7–8

Member towns head to head

Newbury vs Rowley
$900k vs $800k for a 4BR
Newbury vs Salisbury
$900k vs $575k for a 4BR
Rowley vs Salisbury
$800k vs $575k for a 4BR

Read next

Studies from this site that turn on something specific about the Triton towns — each one says what.

The ocean or the best schools: Massachusetts makes you choose
All three towns here are on the water, and not one is Tier 1. Statewide, every one of the 23 Tier 1 districts is inland.
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Walkability, culture, gathering places: none of it moved house prices
Six measures of town character explained nothing about a decade of price growth. Water was the one thing that survived, and all three towns here have it.
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The best Massachusetts towns if you don’t commute to Boston
A median 68 minutes from Boston. These are not Boston commuter towns, and the school premium you are not paying for that is 26%.
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What $750,000 actually buys in Massachusetts
One of the three towns here has a 4BR under $750k — and statewide that budget reaches no Tier 1 district at all.
7 min read

District membership, enrolment and per-pupil spending come from the state’s DESE reports; MCAS and graduation figures are the state’s own. Prices are estimates calibrated to the Zillow Home Value Index and Redfin, and tax bills apply each town’s FY2026 rate to its own median 4BR estimate, so they are indicative rather than an assessment. Data last reviewed — see the methodology.

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