Summary:
Burlington is served by a single public high school, Burlington High, which enrolls 1,019 students in grades 9–12 at 123 Cambridge Street and belongs to the Burlington district. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no in-town comparison to make; the most useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own year-over-year trend.
Academically, Burlington High sits above both the district and the state in every reported MCAS Next Generation proficiency measure. Its standout result is Biology End-of-Course, where 62.91% of students were proficient, compared with 60.44% in the district and 37.68% statewide — a gap of more than 25 percentage points over the state. Tenth-grade Mathematics was 54.94% proficient, 11.21 points above the state, while 10th-grade ELA (50.64%) and Science (47.96%) were also above district and state levels. The school ranked 94th of 353 schools in 2025–2026, at the 73rd percentile with 4 stars, up from 124th of 348 — 64th percentile, 3 stars — in 2023–2024.
Two watch items stand out. Tenth-grade ELA proficiency fell 11.00 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and Science fell 11.35 points, though both remain above district and state; Mathematics was essentially steady, with a 0.51-point dip. Completion outcomes are strong: a 95.0% graduation rate versus 93.5% for the district, and a 4.6% dropout rate versus 4.9%. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 11.3 and per-student spending of $21,351 for 2020–2021, while free/reduced lunch data is not reported, so the economic context behind these results is unknown.
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