High Schools in Cambridge

Cambridge, Massachusetts has one public high school in this data set: Cambridge Rindge and Latin, which serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 2,072 students. Because it is the only high school listed, there are no cross-school comparisons to make — the useful benchmarks are the Cambridge district, the Massachusetts state average, and the school's own record over time. CRLS has moved steadily upward in the state rankings: 141st of 348 high schools in 2023–2024, 104th of 349 in 2024–2025, and 77th of 353 in 2025–2026, rising from 3 stars to 4 stars and landing in the top quartile of Massachusetts high schools. The Cambridge district overall ranks 71st of 351, in the 80th percentile with 4 stars.

On the 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, CRLS scored above both the district and the state in every reported subject. Tenth graders reached 58.39% in English language arts, 63.19% in mathematics, and 52.13% in science, while the end-of-course physics score was 56.92%. The margins over the district are narrow — between about 0.5 and 1.6 percentage points — but the gaps over the state are large, from roughly 10 to 19.5 points. Mathematics is the clearest strength: the school's rate is nearly 1.45 times the state's.

Year over year, 10th-grade mathematics rose about 5 points and English language arts about 1 point, while science slipped about 1.7 points — though the state's science score fell further, so the school's lead widened. One outlier to watch is the 2024–2025 Biology (all grades) result of 20.00%, above the district's 17.39% but well below the state's 39.02%. Completion outcomes are strong: 94.2% graduated in 2024–2025 versus 91.7% district-wide, and the dropout rate was 1.9% versus 2.3%. The student-teacher ratio is 9.2, and per-student spending was $32,729 in 2020–2021, an older figure. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed here.