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Top 20 Best Massachusetts Private Schools Belonging to Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) (2025)

For the 2025 school year, there are 132 private schools belonging to Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) serving 36,009 students in Massachusetts. You can also find more schools membership associations in Massachusetts.

The private schools belonging to Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) in Massachusetts include Middlesex School, Tabor Academy, and Wilbraham & Monson Academy.

The average tuition cost is $40,256, which is higher than the Massachusetts private school average tuition cost of $27,019.

20% of private schools belonging to Association of Independent Schools in New England (AISNE) in Massachusetts are religiously affiliated (most commonly Catholic and Jewish).

Delphi Academy of Boston Photo - Small class sizes, big thinkers & challenging environment. Caring faculty provide personal, one-on-one attention for every child. Over 40 years of educational experience and success.

The Sage School Photo - Summer Sage offers six weeks of enrichment-based, hands-on workshops for curious and motivated students starting at 3 or 4 years old through Grade 6. Our wide variety of workshops allow students to explore their passions with like-minded peers. Classes are offered in-person on our campus in Foxboro, MA! Students have the option to attend morning, afternoon, or full-day sessions.

Bay Farm Montessori Academy Photo - Our Children`s House preschool/pre-k, kindergarten classrooms accommodate children in mixed-age classrooms that provide a safe, stimulating, nurturing, educational, and social foundation for future success.

Miss Hall's School Photo - "The best thing about MHS is how friendly everyone is and how easy it is to become part of the community. I had an abundance of new friends on the first day of orientation, and I had bonded with my teachers by the end of the first week of classes." - Current Student

Apple Orchard School Photo - Based on Allandale Farm, Apple Orchard students spend much of their time outside: running in fields, feeding the chickens, caring for our barn animals, walking our goats, climbing pudding stone, building tree forts, sledding, stomping in puddles and playing in the mud.

Tabor Academy Photo - Tabor has 4 docks and over 140 "things that float" including a 115-foot double masted schooner that serves as a research vessel, sail boats, crew shells, and more.

Stoneleigh-Burnham School Photo - Our challenging and supportive learning environment encourages appropriate risk-taking by providing a safe space for making mistakes. Stoneleigh-Burnham School offers the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma Programme.

Kingsley Montessori School Photo - Elementary students exploring a geography work. A key component of the Kingsley mission is raising empathetic global citizens-students who care deeply for the world and work together to improve it.

Fay School Photo - Fay School is located on a 66-acre campus 25 miles from Boston in Southborough, Massachusetts, and is the oldest junior boarding school in the United States. Fay currently serves students in Kindergarten through grade nine, with an optional boarding program starting in grade seven.

Commonwealth School Photo - Two blocks from Copley Square, nestled in a pair of brownstones in Boston's Back Bay, the feeling of family persists at Commonwealth, and its location gives students unparalleled access to Boston's resources, fostering meaningful scholarly research, independent projects, and community service.

The Phoenix School Photo - We learn through doing, being, exploring, experimenting, questioning, researching, designing, engineering, leadership, with our peers, with our older and younger partners, and in so many more ways too.

Greenfield Center School Photo - Center School students are immersed in rigor and play in balanced abundance. This 3rd/4th grade is heading out to their "Woods Spot"--a location in the adjacent conservation area where the class spends time most afternoons. Woods spots become a nexus of social and academic learning, where commerce, governance, and community emerge organically.

The Woodward School Photo - This is a place where you will easily make friends. These students are in the Senior Class of 2021.

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