Summary:
The Whitman-Hanson area has one public high school: Whitman Hanson Regional, at 600 Franklin Street in Whitman, MA, serving grades 9–12 with 993 students. It belongs to the Whitman-Hanson district, which sits at the 39th percentile statewide with 2 stars (ranked 215 of 351 districts). With only one school here, the useful comparisons are the school against its district and the state, and this year against prior years.
The strongest recent result is Grade 10 Science in 2024–2025: 61.61% proficient, which is 15.72 points above the state's 45.89% and above the district's 60.96%. The school also outperformed its own district in all eight reported school-versus-district comparisons, though the margins were consistently small (about +0.29 to +1.44 points). The graduation rate was 91.6% versus the district's 88.9%, while the dropout rate was 5.4% versus 5.2% — slightly higher than the district. The student-teacher ratio was 14.6:1.
The most recent year is the concern. In 2025–2026 the school fell below the state in all four reported subjects: ELA (33.49% vs. 45.48%), Mathematics (30.69% vs. 43.73%), Science (36.08% vs. 40.50%), and Biology End of Course (30.21% vs. 37.68%). Year over year in Grade 10, ELA dropped 16.3 points, Mathematics 14.1 points, and Science 25.5 points. The latest accountability rank is 220 of 353 (percentile 38, 2 stars), the lowest of the three years shown. Because results are cohort-based, swings of this size can also reflect changes in test administration or participation rather than learning alone. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, and the $14,463 per-student spending figure is from 2020–2021.
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