Summary:
The Northern Berkshire Regional Vocational Technical district contains exactly one high school: Charles McCann Vocational Technical in North Adams, Massachusetts, serving grades 9–12 with 514 students. Because it is the only school in the district, its school-level and district-level figures are identical, so there are no in-district peers to compare it with. Parents considering this area are effectively evaluating one vocational high school.
Charles McCann's strongest results are in completion and resources. Its graduation rate is 97.7% and its dropout rate is 1.5% for 2024–2025, both favorable outcomes. The student-teacher ratio is 10.6, and per-student spending was $25,282 in 2020–2021 — though that spending figure is several years older than the rest of the data and should be compared cautiously. Academically, every reported MCAS subject improved from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 while state averages generally declined: English Language Arts rose 1.92 points, Mathematics 6.74 points, Science 9.45 points, and Biology 9.16 points (the Biology figures cover different grade groupings, so that comparison is not perfectly like-for-like). Science showed the most dramatic gain, cutting its gap to the state from 25.06 points to 10.22 points.
Proficiency remains the main concern. The school scored below the Massachusetts average in every reported subject and year. In 2025–2026, Math was 21.37 versus the state's 43.73 — a 22.36-point gap and the widest of any subject — while ELA was 27.73 versus 45.48 and Science 30.28 versus 40.50. Rank history is volatile and mostly low: 35th percentile in 2023–2024, 12th in 2024–2025, and 28th in 2025–2026, with 2 stars followed by 1 star. The current district listing shows 292nd of 351 districts, 17th percentile, 1 star. Free/reduced lunch data is blank for 2024–2025, so socioeconomic context is unknown.
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