High Schools in Brookline

Brookline is home to a single public high school, Brookline High, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 2,181 students as part of the Brookline district. Because it is the only high school in the area, parents have no local alternative to compare it against — but the school's own numbers place it among the strongest in Massachusetts.

Brookline High has earned a 5-star rating in every recent year shown. It ranked 14th of 353 Massachusetts high schools (96th percentile) for 2025–2026, 5th of 349 (99th percentile) for 2024–2025, and 29th of 348 (92nd percentile) for 2023–2024 — volatile year to year, but consistently in the top 10% of the state. Its test results are far above the Massachusetts average: in 2025–2026, 10th-grade proficiency was 77.58% in English language arts, 83.27% in math, and 79.03% in science, and end-of-course physics proficiency was 79.70% — roughly 32–40 percentage points above state averages in each subject. The Brookline district is itself high-performing, ranked 16th of 351 (95th percentile) with 5 stars, and the school edges out district results in every reported test, usually by less than a point. Outcomes are strong as well: a 96.2% graduation rate and a 1.6% dropout rate for 2024–2025, slightly above and equal to district figures respectively. Note that ELA is the relative weak spot — its lowest subject score — though still more than 32 points above the state. Resource context looks favorable, with an 11.8:1 student-teacher ratio and per-student spending of $23,558 in 2020–2021, though that spending figure is older than the rest of the data. Free/reduced-price lunch status is not reported in this data, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this extract.