Summary:
There is a single school in the Ralph C Mahar district: Ralph C Mahar Regional, a public high school in Orange, Massachusetts serving grades 7–12 with 509 students, so district and school results are identical in every reported MCAS row.
There is real momentum here. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, proficiency rose in every all-grade subject: science jumped from 21.05% to 34.55%, civics in 8th grade from 19.15% to 27.52%, ELA from 20.90% to 25.55%, and math from 25.51% to 28.44%. The state did not improve over the same period, so the school narrowed its gap to the state in all four areas — most dramatically in science, where the gap shrank from 20.46 points to 6.43 points. Eighth-grade science is the closest subject to state performance, at 34.55% proficient versus 38.93% statewide, a gap of only 4.38 points. Resource inputs also look favorable: the student–teacher ratio is 9:1, and per-student spending was $18,470 in 2020–2021.
Even so, every reported 2025–2026 score remains below the state average, and high school grades lag furthest behind. Tenth-grade science is 8.20% proficient versus 40.50% statewide, a 32.30-point gap; 10th-grade math is 19.35% versus 43.73%; 10th-grade ELA is 22.97% versus 45.48%; and Biology End of Course is 17.86% versus 37.68%. In core subjects, 7th and 8th graders outperform 10th graders, suggesting a drop-off in high school. Completion is also a concern: the graduation rate is 83.3%, meaning roughly 16.7% of the cohort did not finish in four years, and the dropout rate is 12.8%, slightly above the district's 12.0%. The district ranks 308th of 351 statewide, at the 12th percentile with 1 star — up from 0 stars in 2023–2024 but still near the bottom. Free/reduced lunch data is blank, so socioeconomic context is unknown, not zero.
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