Public Schools
North Middlesex Regional School District includes the following schools located in Townsend:
- Preschool Squannacook Early Childhood Center
- K - 4 Spaulding Memorial School
- 5 - 8 Hawthorne Brook Middle School
- 9 - 12 North Middlesex Regional High School
Townsend is also a district town in Nashoba Valley Technical High School