Gardner High

Gardner High is a public high school serving grades 8-12 with a total enrollment of 809 students in Gardner, Massachusetts, a city located in the north-central part of the state. The school is part of the Gardner school district, which is ranked 304 out of 348 districts in Massachusetts and has a 1-star rating from SchoolDigger.

Gardner High has consistently ranked in the bottom half of Massachusetts high schools, ranging from 235th to 281st out of 347-349 schools over the past 10 years, and has received a 1-star or 2-star rating from SchoolDigger, indicating it is performing below average compared to other high schools in the state. The school's performance across different student subgroups is generally below average, with the school ranking in the bottom half of Massachusetts high schools for female, male, Hispanic, White, multi-racial, special education, and low socioeconomic status students. However, the school's strongest performance is in the multi-racial student subgroup, where it ranks in the top half of Massachusetts high schools.

While Gardner High's four-year graduation rate has fluctuated between 80.3% and 96.9% over the past five years, with the most recent rate being 85.9%, the school's dropout rate has also varied, ranging from 2.4% to 8.2% during the same period. Academically, Gardner High's MCAS proficiency rates in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science are consistently lower than the state averages across all grade levels and subject areas, with the school's weakest performance in Mathematics, where its proficiency rates are around 13-30% for all grades, significantly below the state average of 40-49%. In contrast, Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical, a regional vocational-technical high school located about 6 miles from Gardner High, consistently outperforms the state in academic proficiency rates and has a much higher statewide ranking (top 100 schools).