High Schools in Ashland

Ashland, Massachusetts has one public high school, Ashland High, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 884 students, so it is the entire local high-school option for families in the Ashland district. It is a high-performing, 4-star school: 46th of 353 high schools in 2025–2026, in the 87th percentile, with a district rank of 67th of 351, in the 81st percentile, also 4 stars. The available data cover rank history, MCAS Next Generation proficiency, graduation and dropout rates, per-student spending, and student-teacher ratio; the free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank in this extract and should not be treated as zero.

In every reported MCAS Next Generation row, Ashland High’s proficiency is above both the district and the state. In 2025–2026, 10th-grade ELA was 68.18% proficient versus 67.11% in the district and 45.48% statewide, math was 70.51% versus 69.37% and 43.73%, science was 65.20% versus 64.56% and 40.50%, and end-of-course Biology was 63.32% versus 62.07% and 37.68%. The school-state gaps range from roughly +20 to +28 percentage points. Math is consistently the strongest relative subject. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, 10th-grade ELA fell from 72.51% to 68.18% and math from 72.99% to 70.51%, but both remain far above state averages; science stayed nearly flat at 65.20%, while the state science average dropped, widening Ashland High’s advantage.

Other indicators are also favorable. The graduation rate is 91.5% and the dropout rate is under 5% (4.9%) for 2024–2025, identical to the district, though no state benchmark is provided here. The student-teacher ratio is 14:1, and per-student spending is $14,253 from 2020–2021, older data without a state average for comparison. Rank history shows 46th in 2025–2026, 56th in 2024–2025, and 53rd in 2023–2024, with 4 stars in each of the last three reported years. Because there is only one high school in this area, there is no local peer comparison; the best context is Ashland High versus the state, its own prior years, and the district aggregate. The main watch points are the recent dip in 10th-grade ELA and math and missing context for free/reduced lunch, current spending, and state graduation/dropout benchmarks.