High Schools in Brockton

Five high schools serve Brockton, Massachusetts — four covering grades 9–12 and one, Brockton Virtual Learning Academy, covering grades 6–12 — with 4,246 students enrolled, nearly 85% of them at a single school. The Brockton district ranks 329 out of 351 statewide, in the 6th percentile with 0 stars, but results vary sharply from school to school, so the district rank alone hides a great deal.

PROMISE College and Career Academy is the academic standout: ranked 191 of 353 (46th percentile, 2 stars), with 10th-grade ELA proficiency of 67.44%, far above the district's 21.66% and the state's 45.48%. It also leads the district in math (39.53%), science (20.93%) and Biology (24.44%), and improved year over year, though those three remain below state averages. Brockton High, the largest school at 3,598 students, posts the best completion numbers — an 84.3% graduation rate and 7.5% dropout rate, both better than the district — plus physics proficiency of 51.67%, above the state's 46.58%, even as its core-subject scores (19.68% ELA, 14.09% math) sit below district and state levels.

Three schools show serious completion challenges: Edison Evening Academy (59.4% graduation, 24.7% dropout), Champion High School (65.0% and 25.0%, plus 7.69% ELA proficiency and a 2024–25 math figure of 0%), and Brockton Virtual Learning Academy (42.1% and 34.2%, the weakest of the group). Notably, Virtual Learning Academy has the lowest student–teacher ratio at 8.7 yet the weakest outcomes, while Edison has the highest at 51.4 — ratio alone does not predict results. Missing data (no free/reduced-lunch figures, spending for only two schools, no current test scores for Edison, no graduation data for PROMISE) means any comparison remains partial.