Summary:
Schools in Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical consist of a single public high school, Northeast Metro Regional Vocational, which serves grades 9–12 in Wakefield, MA with an enrollment of 1,381 students — the district has 0 elementary, 0 middle, 0 alternative, and 1 high school, so district-level and school-level figures are identical wherever both are reported.
The school's profile is mixed rather than uniformly strong or weak. Completion outcomes are excellent: a 98.4% graduation rate and a 1.2% dropout rate for 2024–2025. Resources also look favorable, with a 10.7 student-teacher ratio and per-student spending of $21,830 in 2020–2021. However, MCAS proficiency is below the state average in every reported subject across both years. Physics is the weakest area by a wide margin — 27.52% versus a state average of 46.58% in 2025–2026, and 29.13% versus 44.25% in 2024–2025. Tenth-grade Science fell from 45.37% (nearly matching the state's 45.89%) to 29.74%, while ELA dropped from 43.59% to 37.46% and Math from 42.05% to 34.75%. Note that the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, so it is unknown rather than zero, and economic context cannot be analyzed from this data.
Rankings have been volatile but sit in the lower half of Massachusetts high schools. The school moved from 242 of 348 (2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 189 of 349 in 2024–2025, then slipped to 222 of 353 (2 stars) in 2025–2026. A separate district line shows 261 of 351 at the 26th percentile with 1 star, so it is worth asking which figure is being cited. For parents, the takeaway is a school that gets students to graduation and keeps class sizes small, but where test proficiency — especially in Physics and Science — lags the state.
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