Summary:
Mendon-Upton, Massachusetts is served by a single public high school: Nipmuc Regional High, located in Upton and enrolling 534 students in grades 9–12 as part of the Mendon-Upton district. Because there is only one high school in the area, there are no local peer schools to compare against; the most useful benchmarks are how the school performs relative to its own district, to Massachusetts overall, and across recent school years.
Nipmuc's most recent results are strong. In 2025-2026 it ranked 91st of 353 Massachusetts high schools — the 74th percentile, with 4 stars — a notable rebound from 150th of 349 the year before. In that same year, Nipmuc exceeded the state in every listed MCAS Next Generation assessment: English language arts 10th grade at 61.54% proficient versus the state's 45.48%, mathematics at 55.81% versus 43.73%, science at 50.41% versus 40.50%, and Biology End of Course at 48.54% versus 37.68%. Year over year, comparable 10th-grade scores rose in every subject — mathematics by 11.07 points, science by 7.82 points, and ELA by 2.06 points — after a 2024-2025 year in which 10th-grade science fell 3.30 points below the state.
Other indicators look favorable: the school graduation rate was 94.4% in 2024-2025, slightly above the district's 93.8%, the dropout rate was 3.1%, matching the district, and the student-teacher ratio was 11.4:1. Per-student spending was $16,261, though that figure is from 2020-2021 and is older than the outcome data. A few limitations are worth knowing: the free/reduced lunch field is blank, so it should not be read as zero, no state graduation or dropout values are provided for comparison, and test results are reported only as percent proficient.
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