Summary:
The Southern Worcester County Regional Vocational School District is a single-school vocational district in Charlton, Massachusetts, serving grades 9–12 with 1,188 students at Bay Path Regional Vocational Technical High School — the district has no elementary, middle, or alternative schools, so every district-level figure reflects that one school.
Because there is only one school, there is no in-district peer comparison — the meaningful comparisons are against state averages and the school's own history, and those look favorable. Bay Path's ranking climbed steadily, from 205th of 348 schools (41st percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 142nd of 349 (59th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025, and to 112th of 353 (68th percentile, 3 stars) in 2025–2026 — a 27-percentile-point gain in two years. In 2025–2026, 10th graders exceeded state proficiency rates in English language arts (60.7% vs. 45.48%), mathematics (54.23% vs. 43.73%), and science (51.09% vs. 40.5%), with ELA showing the largest gap at more than 15 percentage points. Notably, the school's ELA, math, and science scores all rose while the state's declined.
Completion outcomes are strong: a 98.9% graduation rate and a 0.4% dropout rate for 2024–2025. The main academic exception is Biology End of Course, where 35.77% reached proficiency versus the state's 37.68% — worth watching, though it reflects a different year and assessment grouping than the well-above-state 2024–2025 Biology All Grades result. Resource indicators include a 9.6:1 student-teacher ratio and $20,980 per-student spending in 2020–2021, though no state or peer comparison for spending is provided, so no link to outcomes should be assumed. One important gap: the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not available in this data, so economic context and equity comparisons cannot be assessed.
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