Summary:
Hanover, Massachusetts has a single high school in this data set — Hanover High, serving grades 9–12 with 663 students at 287 Cedar Street — so families here are not choosing between competing local high schools; the meaningful comparisons are against the Hanover district and Massachusetts overall.
Hanover High holds a 4-star rating and ranks 73 of 353 Massachusetts high schools (79th percentile), placing it in roughly the top 21% of ranked high schools statewide. Its rank history has been steady: 52 of 348 (85th percentile) in 2023–2024, 75 of 349 in 2024–2025, and 73 of 353 in 2025–2026, holding 4 stars each year. The Hanover district ranks 60 of 351 (83rd percentile, 4 stars). Test scores are consistently above state averages: in 2025–2026, Science was 60.38% proficient versus 40.5% statewide, Biology End-of-Course 59.15% versus 37.68%, Mathematics 58.02% versus 43.73%, and English Language Arts 55.90% versus 45.48%. Scores also run slightly above district averages in every reported subject, suggesting district results closely track the high school's.
Completion outcomes are strong: a 97.1% graduation rate in 2024–2025, just above the district's 96.6%, with a 0.6% dropout rate for both. The watch items are recent declines in 10th-grade ELA (66.87% to 55.90%) and Mathematics (63.64% to 58.02%) from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Science was essentially flat (60.49% to 60.38%). The district saw similar ELA and Math drops. Contextual data is limited: the free/reduced-lunch figure is unknown in this data set, spending is an older 2020–2021 figure of $16,088 per student, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.2 with no comparison benchmark.
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