High Schools in Dracut

Dracut, Massachusetts is home to exactly one public high school: Dracut Senior High, a grades 9–12 comprehensive school at 1540 Lakeview Avenue serving 792 students in the Dracut district. Because there is only one school here, there is no side-by-side comparison of local high schools; instead, the useful picture comes from how this school stacks up against its district and the state, and how it has changed over the past three years. It currently holds a 2-star rating and sits at the 35th percentile of Massachusetts high schools.

The school's strongest results are in completion. Its graduation rate is 90.9%, above the district's 88.4%, and its dropout rate is 5.3%, better than the district's 6.9%. Those two figures are measured on different bases and should be read as separate indicators rather than as complementary halves of one whole. Less encouraging is its statewide standing, which has slipped for three straight years: rank went from 194 of 348, to 218 of 349, to 228 of 353, while percentile fell from 44 to 38 to 35. The star rating stayed at 2 throughout, so the percentile figure tells the sharper story — the school now lands in the bottom third of the state.

On MCAS proficiency, the pattern is consistent across all eight reported comparisons: the school edges out its own district by thin margins of +0.4 to +2.0 points, but trails the state in every subject, with 10th-grade ELA and Mathematics falling roughly 11 to 14 points below state levels. Declines year over year were broad — ELA down 4.26 points, Science down 7.85, and Mathematics down 8.89 — making Math the clearest priority signal, since its gap to the state widened sharply in a single year. Staffing looks reasonable at a 12.8 student–teacher ratio, but the $13,895 per-student spending figure is from 2020–2021 and predates this achievement window, and the free/reduced lunch number is not reported, so no economic context can be attached to these results.