Summary:
Monson, Massachusetts has one high school: Monson High School, a grades 7–12 school at 55 Margaret Street serving 280 students as part of the Monson district. Because it is the only high school in the area, there are no local peer schools to compare against; the most useful benchmarks are the district and the state of Massachusetts, along with the school's own year-over-year trend.
On SchoolDigger, Monson High School holds a 2-star rating and ranked 232nd of 353 Massachusetts high schools in 2025–26, the 34th percentile. That is above its district, which is rated 1 star and ranks 286th of 351 (19th percentile), but it still places the school in the bottom third of the state. The trend is downward: rank moved from 177th in 2023–24 to 206th in 2024–25 to 232nd in 2025–26, with percentile falling from 49 to 34. The 2024–25 graduation rate is 80.0% and the dropout rate is 6.7%. The student-teacher ratio is 8.1, implying roughly 35 teachers for 280 students, and per-student spending was $19,374 in 2020–21. Free/reduced lunch is not reported, so it should be treated as unknown rather than zero.
Academically, the school trails the state in every reported 2025–26 subject area: by 21.48 points in all-grades ELA, 13.01 in math, and 17.77 in science. Its relative strengths include 10th grade ELA (38.89% proficient), 8th grade math (35.71%), and Biology End of Course (25.81%). The largest gaps are 8th grade Civics (12.73% versus the state's 39.77%) and middle-school ELA, with 8th grade ELA at 17.86% and 7th grade ELA at 19.12%. Year over year, all-grades math rose from 12.80% to 28.10% while all-grades ELA fell from 32.54% to 18.55%. The school is usually slightly ahead of its district in grade-level tests, but by small margins.
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