[3] Prior to the 2012-13 school year, North Andover High School left the Cape Ann League after forty years to join the Merrimack Valley Conference (MVC).

[6] At the conclusion of Saugus High School's first season in the Cape Ann League, they requested to rejoin the Northeastern Conference due to geographic and traveling issues.

All sports would play in the Northeastern Conference, with the exception of football which would become independent for the 2014 fall season.

The Saugus Sachems football team would play opponents from both the Cape Ann League and Northeastern Conference.

[9] The Cape Ann League sponsors championship competition in twelve men's, eleven women's, and one coed MIAA sanctioned sports.