Tantasqua

The Tantasqua district in Massachusetts includes three schools serving 1,750 students: one middle school covering grades 7–8 and two high schools covering grades 9–12, with no elementary or alternative schools in this list. All three schools share the same district rating — rank 155 of 351, 56th percentile, 3 stars — but that single rating masks wide differences between the schools themselves.

Tantasqua Regional Senior High is the academic standout, with 4 stars in each of the last three years and 632 students. Its 2025–2026 proficiency tops both district and state in ELA 10th grade (55.3%), Mathematics 10th grade (65.91%), Science 10th grade (52.63%), and Biology End of Course (94.44%). It also has the lowest student-teacher ratio at 7.6, the highest per-student spending at $16,553, a 95.0% graduation rate, and a 1.9% dropout rate. Tantasqua Regional Vocational (542 students) stands out for completion rather than test scores: a 99.2% graduation rate and 0.0% dropout rate, despite 2 stars and a rising rank percentile of 34 to 38 to 44. Its reported student-teacher ratio of 66.5 is a sharp outlier and should be read cautiously. Tantasqua Regional Junior High (576 students) is middle-performing and slipping, with rank percentile falling from 75 to 67 to 59 and stars moving from 4 to 3 to 3.

Across the district, Physics is the clear weak spot, with the Senior High at 35.56% and the Vocational school at 28.89% in 2025–2026, both below the state. Biology is a relative strength, especially at the Senior High. Spending and outcomes don't line up simply: the highest-spending school has the strongest test scores, while the lowest-spending school has the best graduation and dropout results. Free/reduced lunch data is blank for all three schools, so this analysis cannot assess how socioeconomic factors relate to these differences.