Best Public Schools in Taunton, MA

Taunton, Massachusetts has 11 schools serving students from elementary through high school — 5 elementary, 2 middle, and 4 high schools, enrolling 8,190 students total — with 10 schools in the Taunton district and one, Bristol-Plymouth Vocational Technical, in the Bristol-Plymouth Regional Vocational Technical district. Although the area summary lists 0 alternative schools, Taunton Alternative High School and Taunton Public Virtual Academy (TPVA) serve alternative and virtual populations. Scores are MCAS Next Generation percent proficient, and free/reduced-lunch data is blank for every school, so socioeconomic context is not available.

Bristol-Plymouth Vocational Technical posts the strongest overall outcomes: a 98.4% graduation rate, 1.6% dropout rate, 10th-grade math at 49.23% (above the state's 43.73%), science at 40.57% (just above the state's 40.50%), and ELA at 40.80% (below the state's 45.48%). It also has the highest per-student spending at $20,226. Among elementary schools, H H Galligan leads in ELA (35.19%) and math (33.33%) versus the Taunton district at 28.51% and 23.37%, with the lowest student-teacher ratio at 11.6; Joseph C Chamberlain is second in math at 32.58%. In middle school, Benjamin Friedman Middle leads ELA at 33.43% while John F Parker Middle leads science at 30.94%; both are weak in math.

The Taunton district trails the state in every major subject — ELA by 11.52 points, math by 17.74 points, and science by 19.92 points. The largest school, Taunton High (2,877 students), reports 10th-grade ELA at 27.84%, math at 23.55%, and science at 18.95%, with a 91.4% graduation rate and 7.0% dropout rate, and its rank fell to the 19th percentile. The small alternative and virtual schools show very low proficiency and higher dropout, including TPVA's highest dropout rate at 11.1%.