Summary:
Central Berkshire has just one public high school in this data set — Wahconah Regional High in Dalton, Massachusetts — serving grades 9–12 with 450 students as part of the Central Berkshire district.
Because it is the only high school in the area, Wahconah Regional High defines what high school looks like in Central Berkshire, and district figures essentially mirror the school's own numbers. Its strengths are clear. The 2024–2025 graduation rate was 95.0%, slightly above the district's 94.2%, the dropout rate was 3.3%, and the student-teacher ratio was a favorable 10.9 students per teacher. The school has held a steady 3-star rating across all three years of rank history. Biology is a standout: in 2025–2026, 48.25% of students were proficient on the Biology end-of-course test, well above the state's 37.68%. In 2024–2025, the school also exceeded the state in 10th-grade English language arts, mathematics, and science.
The caution lies in the most recent core results. In 2025–2026, 10th-grade proficiency fell below the state in ELA (44.12% versus 45.48%), mathematics (39.22% versus 43.73%), and science (38.71% versus 40.50%). Science dropped nearly 20 percentage points from the prior year and mathematics about 11 points. Rank slipped from 120th of 349 schools, or the 66th percentile, in 2024–2025 to 145th of 353, or the 59th percentile, in 2025–2026 — still above the middle of Massachusetts high schools, but trending downward. Per-student spending was $17,889, though that figure is from 2020–2021, and the free/reduced lunch percentage is not populated in this file, so economic context is limited.
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