Summary
Map Academy Charter School is a grade 9–12 charter high school in Plymouth, MA, a South Shore community about 40 miles south of Boston, serving 301 students as its own district, Map Academy Charter School (District). It is the lowest-ranked school in its area by a wide margin: the district ranks 350th of 351 statewide (0th percentile, 0 stars), and the school ranked 346th of 353 in 2025–2026 (2nd percentile, 0 stars), below Duxbury (46th), Marshfield (104th), Pembroke (136th), Plymouth (182nd), Silver Lake (190th), Whitman-Hanson (215th), Carver (237th), and Middleborough (253rd).
Graduation is the most severe concern. In 2024–2025, Map Academy's graduation rate was 27.9% — roughly 62 percentage points below the lowest nearby school, Middleborough High (90.4%) — while Marshfield High, Pembroke High School, Plymouth South High, Duxbury High, Silver Lake Regional High, and Carver Middle/High School reported rates between 96.5% and 99.1%. Its 8.2% dropout rate was the highest in the comparison group. This is a multi-year pattern: graduation rates ranged from 17.9% to 31.2% over five years, and dropout rates peaked at 12.5% in 2023–2024. MCAS results are similarly far below state levels — 2025–2026 10th-grade proficiency was 13.33% in English language arts, 5% in math, and 0% in both science and Biology End of Course, against state rates of 45.48%, 43.73%, 40.5%, and 37.68%.
Charter status alone does not explain the gap. Rising Tide Charter Public School, less than a mile away, ranked 64th of 351 with 4 stars, with 2025–2026 proficiency of 76.27% in ELA, 78.95% in math, and 54.9% in science. Resources do not show an obvious disadvantage: the student–teacher ratio of 11 is comparable to nearby high schools, and per-student spending of $18,045 (2020–2021) was above several nearby districts. One bright spot is that in 2023–2024 the school ranked in the 81st percentile with 4 stars for special education students, though the prior year it was at the 37th percentile. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not reported in the available data, so they are unknown.
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