High Schools in Gloucester

Gloucester has just one public high school in this data set: Gloucester High, located at 32 L O Johnson Rd and serving grades 9–12 with 776 students. Because it is the only high school in the Gloucester district, there is no local peer school to compare it against, so any comparison has to be made against the district, the state, or the school's own results over time. The school reports a 10:1 student-teacher ratio and per-student spending of $19,870 (2020–2021).

Academically, Gloucester High outperforms its district in every reported MCAS subject, though the margins are small. Math is the clearest bright spot: 10th-grade proficiency was 42.37% versus the state's 43.73%, a gap of only 1.36 percentage points, and it rose from 41.62% the year before. ELA, Science, and Biology trail the state more noticeably — ELA at 35% against 45.48%, Science at 30.59% against 40.5%, and Biology End of Course at 24.73% against 37.68%, the largest gap of any subject. Science showed the most concerning year-over-year change, falling 6.61 percentage points while the state declined less, so the gap widened. ELA actually lost ground in absolute terms but narrowed its distance from the state.

Gloucester High ranks 216 of 353 schools statewide, in the 39th percentile with 2 stars, while the district sits at 259 of 351, in the 26th percentile with 1 star — so the high school is a relative strength within the district, though still below the state midpoint. Its rank improved from 237 of 348 two years earlier and has since held steady. The graduation rate of 85.8% is slightly above the district's 84.7%, but the dropout rate of 9.6% is also slightly above the district's 9.4% and near double digits. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported, limiting deeper analysis.