Summary:
There is one public high school in the Blackstone Valley Regional Vocational Technical district: Blackstone Valley, a vocational-technical high school serving grades 9–12 at 65 Pleasant Street in Upton, MA. It enrolls 1,243 students, and because the district contains only this one school, all district figures reflect this school alone. In the most recent ranking the school placed 129th out of 351, which is the 63rd percentile with 3 stars—above the middle of Massachusetts high schools, though down from 4 stars and the 74th percentile in 2023-2024.
Academically, Blackstone Valley was above the state average in most reported subjects in SY 2025-2026: 10th-grade English Language Arts at 49.84% versus 45.48% statewide, Mathematics at 48.05% versus 43.73%, and Science at 45.30% versus 40.50%. Physics is its clearest strength, at 61.26% proficient compared with 46.58% statewide, and 65.77% compared with 44.25% the year before. Biology is the exception in 2025-2026, at 35.96% versus the state's 37.68%. Notably, SY 2024-2025 was stronger across the board—10th-grade ELA, Mathematics, and Science were all above state by wide margins—and the drop since then was steeper than the state's own decline in those subjects, which helps explain the slide in rank and stars.
Outcome measures look ideal on the reported data: a 100.0% graduation rate and a 0.0% dropout rate in SY 2024-2025, with a student-teacher ratio of 11.2. Per-student spending is listed at $21,626 for SY 2020-2021, the only year provided, with no state or peer comparison to judge it against. The free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank, so family-income context is unknown and should not be read as either an advantage or a concern. Parents weighing this school should note its consistently strong Physics results and above-state performance overall, alongside a recent downward trend in test scores and ranking that is worth watching.
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