Summary
Cambridge Rindge and Latin is a grades 9–12 public high school in Cambridge, MA, with 2,072 students — the largest nearby school other than Boston Latin School. In 2025–2026 it ranked 77th of 353 Massachusetts high schools (78th percentile, 4 stars), and its Cambridge district ranked 71st of 351 districts statewide. This caps a long climb: in 2015–2016 the school sat at the 38th percentile with 2 stars.
On 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, 10th-grade scores were above the state average in ELA (58.39 vs. 45.48), math (63.19 vs. 43.73), science (52.13 vs. 40.50), and Physics end-of-course (56.92 vs. 46.58), and close to Cambridge district averages. In 2024–2025, the graduation rate was 94.2% (district 91.7%) and the dropout rate 1.9% (district 2.3%). Resources are favorable: a 9.2 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and $32,729 per-student spending in 2020–2021.
Among nearby schools, CRL trails only Boston Latin School (24th of 353, 5 stars), a selective exam school serving grades 7–12, so it is not a like-for-like comparison. CRL outperforms Somerville High (146th, 3 stars; 89.8% graduation, 6.9% dropout) and Community Charter School of Cambridge (127th, 3 stars) on achievement and completion, and is far ahead of Boston Arts Academy, Charlestown High School, Brighton High School, Snowden International High School, and Boston Green Academy Horace Mann Charter School. Subgroup results have improved broadly: Hispanic students reached the 90th percentile (5 stars), with gains for low-income and special education students as well; the Asian student subgroup, at the 34th percentile, is the main exception. One anomaly: Biology proficiency was 20%, below the state, even though 10th-grade science and physics are above it.
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