Summary:
Pathfinder Vocational Technical is the only school in the Pathfinder Regional Vocational Technical district — a high school and vocational technical school in Palmer, Massachusetts serving grades 9–12 with about 660 students. Because the district contains just this one school, district results and school results are identical; anything reported at the district level is also the school's own result.
Academically, the story is improvement from a below-average starting point. In 2025–2026, 41.14% of 10th graders reached proficiency in English Language Arts, 35.48% in Mathematics, 28.38% in Science, and 27.45% in Biology. All are below state averages, with the biggest shortfalls in Science and Biology (roughly 10–12 percentage points). Yet from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, proficiency rose about 9.6 points in ELA, 9.9 points in Math, and 5.7 points in Science while state scores fell, narrowing the gap with the state by roughly 11–15 points. (The Biology comparison is inexact: 2024–2025 reported it for all grades, 2025–2026 as an end-of-course exam.) Reflecting the gains, the school's rank moved from 274th of 349, the 21st percentile with 1 star, to 215th of 353, the 39th percentile with 2 stars — still below the state median but clearly trending upward. The district summary line shows 256th of 351, 27th percentile, 1 star.
On completion and resources: the 2024–2025 graduation rate was 94.2% with a 3.6% dropout rate, a favorable 9.9 students per teacher, and $24,624 spent per student in 2020–2021. Free/reduced-price lunch data was not populated, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed.
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