Summary:
Taunton, Massachusetts has three high schools serving grades 8–12: Taunton High, Taunton Alternative High School, and Taunton Public Virtual Academy (TPVA), together enrolling 3,009 students. Taunton High accounts for 2,877 of them — about 96% — while Taunton Alternative has 74 students and TPVA has 58. All three sit in the Taunton district, which ranks 291 of 351 statewide, at the 17th percentile with 1 star, a low district-wide context that frames every comparison below.
Taunton High has the strongest reported outcomes of the three: a 91.4% graduation rate and a 7.0% dropout rate, both better than the district's 89.0% and 7.5%. Taunton Alternative has the lowest graduation rate at 77.2%, which is 11.8 points below the district, and a dropout rate of 7.6%. TPVA has the highest dropout rate at 11.1%, along with very low MCAS proficiency: 10th-grade math was 0% in both 2025–2026 and 2024–2025, 10th-grade ELA was 6.67%, and Biology was 0% in 2024–2025. With only 58 students, a single student can move those percentages substantially. No MCAS results are provided for Taunton Alternative.
Even at Taunton High, proficiency trails the state — All Grades math is 11.40% versus 41.11% statewide, and 8th-grade math is 11.40% versus 41.67%. Its rank also slipped from 233 of 348 (33rd percentile, 2 stars) in 2023–2024 to 285 of 353 (19th percentile, 1 star) in 2025–2026. Spending data from 2020–2021 exists for only two schools: $15,213 per student at Taunton High and $13,122 at Taunton Alternative. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank for all three, meaning unavailable rather than zero. Lower student-teacher ratios do not track with better results here: TPVA has the lowest ratio (14.5) but the highest dropout rate, while Taunton High has the highest ratio (16.5) and the best graduation figures.
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