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Duxbury, MA Schools

Over $26 million of Duxbury’s annual budget is devoted to the town’s nationally recognized public school system. According to Newsweek magazine’s 2005, 2006 and 2007 rankings of the Nation’s Top 1200 Public High Schools (the top 5% of public school systems).

Duxbury operates its own school system for the town’s approximately 3,400 students, serving preschool through 12th grade.

Chandler School is located near Tree of Knowledge Corner in the west of town and serves students from pre-kindergarten through second grade.

The Alden Elementary School, near the John Alden House, serves grades 3-5.

Duxbury High School is on Saint George Street and serves grades 9-12. Duxbury High School was just recently rebuilt into a new building along with Duxbury Middle School called the 21st Learning experience.

Duxbury’s athletic teams are known as the Dragons, and their colors are green and white. Their chief rival is Marshfield High School, team mascot the Rams, and they play against them in the Thanksgiving Day Tournament. It is an important local event whose rivalry goes back 30 years.

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Duxbury, MA Demographics

As of the census of 2010, there were 15,059 people, 5,344 households, and 4,162 families residing in Duxbury. There were 5,875 housing units at an average density of 246.7 per square mile (86.9/km²).

The racial makeup of the town was 98.0%White, 0.60% Black or African American, 0.30% Native American, 1.40% Asian, 0.10% Pacific Islander, 0.50% from other races, and 0.80% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1.20% of the population.

There were 5,344 households, of which 38.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 68.1% were married couples living together, 7.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 22.1% were non-families. 19.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.79 and the average family size was 3.23.

The median income for a household in the town was $97,124; and the median income for a family was $106,245. Males had a median income of $77,228 versus $41,730 for females. The per capita income for the town was $40,242. About 1.2% of families and 2.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 3.1% of those under age 18 and 3.1% of those age 65 or over.

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