Summary:
Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical is a single-school area: it contains just one public high school, Gr New Bedford Vocational Technical, serving grades 9–12 at 1121 Ashley Blvd in New Bedford, with 2,151 students enrolled. Because this school is the only high school in the Greater New Bedford Regional Vocational Technical district, there is no other school in the area to compare it against — every district-level figure in the record is simply the school's own figure repeated. The comparisons below are therefore against the school's own past or against Massachusetts statewide results.
The school's standout strengths are completion and capacity. Its graduation rate is 97.8% and its dropout rate is only 0.6% (both 2024–2025), meaning nearly the entire cohort finishes and very few leave early. A student-teacher ratio of 11.2 and per-student spending of $22,955 (2020–2021) describe a well-resourced school with comparatively small classes for its size. Test results point the other way: proficiency is below the state in every reported subject and year, with 2025–2026 gaps of about 20 points in English Language Arts, 18 in mathematics, and 18 in science — roughly 55–67% of the state's rate. Its ranking slid from the 39th to the 21st percentile over two years, while the district-level element reports the 9th percentile.
Proficiency fell in all three tested subjects between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, and in English Language Arts and mathematics the school declined faster than the state, widening its distance from statewide results; science narrowed only because the state fell harder. English Language Arts shows the largest and fastest-growing gap, with mathematics close behind, making them the clearest areas of concern. One important piece of context is missing: free/reduced-price lunch data is not reported, so the proficiency comparison is a raw, unadjusted difference rather than a like-for-like one.
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