Summary:
Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers: A Horace Mann is the only school in this Boston-area district, serving grades 9–12 with 383 students, and it is its own district, so school and district figures are the same.
This is a small, relatively well-resourced high school with strong persistence indicators but low academic proficiency and a low statewide ranking. Its graduation rate is 91.5% and its dropout rate is 6.1% in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio is 9.5:1, indicating a comparatively small learning environment. Per-student spending was $24,836 in 2020–2021, though no state average is given for comparison. The free/reduced lunch percentage is blank/unknown, so it should not be treated as zero or as a poverty measure. On the academic side, MCAS Next Generation proficiency is far below the state in every subject and year. In 2025–2026, the school reports 18.75% proficient in 10th-grade English Language Arts (state 45.48%), 18.56% in Mathematics (state 43.73%), 14.1% in Science (state 40.5%), and 14.6% in Biology End of Course (state 37.68%) — gaps of roughly 23 to 32 percentage points. Notably, science and biology results are especially weak for a school with a health-care theme.
Ranking is low but has edged up slightly: the rank history moved from 311 of 348 in 2023–2024 to 308 of 353 in 2025–2026, with percentile rising from 11th to 13th. Current district data shows 338 of 351, 4th percentile, 0 stars — another low statewide position. Year-over-year, 10th-grade Mathematics improved from 12.64% to 18.56%, while ELA fell from 24.73% to 18.75% and Science fell from 19.75% to 14.1%. In short, most students graduate, but test scores remain well below Massachusetts averages. Parents should note the missing lunch and updated spending data, which limit context on current needs and resources.
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