Summary:
Hanover, Massachusetts has five schools serving roughly 3,235 students — two elementary, one middle, and two high schools — with four in the Hanover district (ranked 60 of 351 statewide, 83rd percentile, 4 stars) and one in South Shore Regional Vocational Technical (181 of 351, 48th percentile, 2 stars). Cedar Elementary (PK-1, 479 students) and Center Elementary (grades 2-4, 582) feed Hanover Middle (grades 5-8, 826), then Hanover High (grades 9-12, 663). South Shore Vocational Technical High (grades 9-12, 685) enrolls students separately.
Every Hanover school with current MCAS data scores above the state in the core subjects. Hanover High is a 4-star school ranked 73 of 353 (79th percentile), beating the state in ELA (55.90 vs 45.48), math (58.02 vs 43.73), science (60.38 vs 40.50), and biology (59.15 vs 37.68), with a 97.1% graduation rate. Hanover Middle, the largest school, is 4-star and ranked 75 of 478 (84th percentile), above the state in ELA (56.43), math (55.04), science (57.94), and civics (47.34); its 7th-grade math stands out at 65.53 vs the state's 37.48. Center Elementary is also 4-star (190 of 899, 79th percentile), with math at 58.86 against the district's 55.70 and the state's 41.11. South Shore Vocational Technical High is more uneven: physics (56.90 vs 46.58) and 10th-grade science (47.27 vs 40.50) beat the state, but ELA, math, and biology fall below it — while it posts the highest graduation rate (98.2%), smallest classes (10.2), and highest spending ($22,167).
Cedar Elementary has no MCAS results because it serves only PK-1, and it has the highest student-teacher ratio at 17.5. Its older rankings slipped from the 83rd percentile in 2016-2017 to the 67th percentile in 2018-2019, but those predate current data and are historical context only. Notably, spending and class size do not track neatly with outcomes, and free/reduced-lunch percentages are unavailable for all schools.
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