Summary:
South Middlesex Regional Vocational Technical is a one-school district in Massachusetts, so families in this area have a single high school option: Joseph P Keefe Technical High School in Framingham, a vocational-technical school serving grades 9–12 with 896 students. At the district level, South Middlesex Regional Vocational Technical ranks 258 of 351 districts — the 26th percentile, with 1 star. The school's own rank history is somewhat stronger, placing it around the 35th–39th percentile with 2 stars in each of the last three school years (218 of 353 in 2025–2026).
Academically, proficiency is below state averages in every reported MCAS area, with Mathematics the clearest gap. In 2025–2026, 26.69% of 10th graders were proficient in Math versus 43.73% statewide, a gap of 17.04 percentage points, and down from 29.20% the year before. ELA was 33.9% versus 45.48% state in 2025–2026, down from 37.61%, though the gap narrowed slightly (-11.58 points vs -13.05 points) because state ELA also fell. Science and Biology are relative strengths: 10th-grade Science was 44.50% vs 45.89% state in 2024–2025 — only 1.39 points behind — and 37.73% vs 40.50% in 2025–2026, while Biology End-of-Course was 33.19% vs 37.68%.
Completion and resource measures are the school's standout features. The graduation rate was 97.1% and the dropout rate 2.0% in 2024–2025, alongside a 9.9 student-teacher ratio and $26,598 per-student spending in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch is not reported, so results cannot be contextualized by student need. Overall, this is a school with strong completion outcomes and favorable resources, its best academic showing in Science/Biology, and Mathematics as the clearest priority area.
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