District - Profile

The Community

The North Middlesex Regional School District, serving the towns of Ashby, Pepperell and Townsend, is located in the north/central section of Massachusetts on the New Hampshire/Massachusetts border. The three towns served by the district cover approximately 80 square miles and are located in the suburbs near the cities of Fitchburg, Lowell, Worcester and Nashua, NH. The district, which is growing in size, is fewer than 50 miles northwest of Massachusetts' capital city, Boston. Residents of the area are to be found working in a wide variety of vocations in the high technology, higher education, plastics, and paper enterprises that are prominent in the region.

A unit of the state college system is located in nearby Fitchburg, and the University of Massachusetts-Lowell is only fifteen miles from the district. Lakes, mountains and state parks abound in the area with the mountain and seashore activities of New Hampshire and Cape Cod only one and one-half hour's drive away.

Each town has a separate town meeting/selectmen form of government. A single Regional School Committee, with membership from each of the three towns, is responsible for the operation of schools.