Summary:
High Schools in Dudley-Charlton Regional include exactly one high school, Shepherd Hill Regional High in the Dudley-Charlton Regional district, serving grades 9–12 with 942 students in Dudley, MA.
Academically, Shepherd Hill’s 10th-grade MCAS proficiency is below the state in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. In 2025–2026, ELA proficiency was 24.74% at the school versus 45.48% statewide, a gap of 20.74 percentage points. Mathematics was 28.80% versus 43.73%, and Science was 31.64% versus 40.50%. The school’s scores are very close to the district’s, meaning the district high-school profile is essentially Shepherd Hill’s profile. The one bright spot is Biology End-of-Course, where the school’s 40.44% proficiency exceeded the state’s 37.68%. However, 10th-grade scores declined sharply from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA dropped from 37.71% to 24.74%, Mathematics from 36.80% to 28.80%, and Science from 42.27% to 31.64%.
Graduation and dropout indicators are better than the district: a 92.2% graduation rate versus 90.6%, and a 4.4% dropout rate versus 4.7%. Rankings show a lower-tier and slightly declining position. Shepherd Hill’s school rank moved from 206 of 348 (41st percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024, to 213 of 349 (39th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025, to 231 of 353 (35th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. The district snapshot is lower: 257 of 351, 27th percentile, 1 star. Per-student spending is $14,916 for 2020–2021, and the student-teacher ratio is 14.3 for 2024–2025. Free/reduced-lunch data is not available. Overall, the school shows a mixed profile: strong Biology EOC and graduation/dropout results, but below-state core MCAS performance and a notable decline in 10th-grade proficiency.
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