Summary:
High schools in the Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational Technical district serve grades 9 through 12 at a single campus: Shawsheen Valley Vocational Technical High School in Billerica, Massachusetts, with 1,282 students enrolled. Because this is a one-school district, district-level figures mirror the school's results almost exactly for graduation, dropout, and MCAS test scores.
Completion outcomes are the school's strongest feature. The graduation rate is 98.1% and the dropout rate is 1.9% for 2024-2025. The student-teacher ratio of 9.8 is low, and per-student spending was $24,777 in 2020-2021. In the latest test data, Science at 10th grade (41.23%) and Biology end-of-course (40.45%) both sit above the state averages of 40.50% and 37.68%. The school's rank improved from 178 of 349 in 2024-2025 to 173 of 353 in 2025-2026, though it remains below its best recent showing of 148 of 348 in 2023-2024.
Academic results are uneven by subject. Mathematics is the largest gap: 31.34% of 10th graders were proficient in 2025-2026 versus 43.73% statewide, a difference of about 12.4 percentage points that widened from roughly 4.9 points the prior year. ELA fell sharply from 52.36% to 43.28%, slipping below the state's 45.48%. Note also that the published district summary rank, 206 of 351 (41st percentile, 2 stars), differs from the school's 2025-2026 rank history of 173 of 353 (51st percentile, 3 stars). Free/reduced-price lunch data is blank in this extract, so socioeconomic context cannot be factored into these comparisons.
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