Summary
Hopedale Junior Senior High in Hopedale, MA, is a 7–12 school with 456 students — the only school in its comparison group that includes seventh grade and the smallest of the local middle/high schools — and it is the sole secondary school in the Hopedale district. It ranks 118th of 353 (67th percentile) with a 96.8% graduation rate, 3.2% dropout rate, 10.1:1 student–teacher ratio, and $16,267 per-student spending. After reaching the top decile in 2017–18, it slid to 56th percentile in 2024–25 before rebounding to 67th in 2025–26.
In 2025–26, Hopedale sits mid-table locally: behind Hopkinton High (99th percentile), Medway High (83rd), Nipmuc Regional High (74th), and Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical (72nd), and ahead of Blackstone Valley (64th), Uxbridge High (60th), Bellingham High School (49th), Northbridge High (40th), and Milford High (28th). Its 10th-grade results are much stronger than its all-grades summary suggests: ELA is 59.68% (state 45.48%) and math is 63.93% (state 43.73%), the second-best 10th-grade math result in the set behind only Hopkinton. Eighth-grade science is 51.11% versus a 38.93% state average, best among the four local schools reporting it. But 10th-grade science is 32.14% versus 40.5% state, second-lowest in the set, and upper-level science is the clearest concern: physics has not been reported in two years, and Biology end-of-course results fell from 61.70% (2022–23) to 43.28% (2025–26).
Low-income students rank at the 76th percentile (4 stars), above the school’s own 67th-percentile overall rank, while special education students have drifted from 81st to 61st. With only 456 students, one cohort can swing rankings sharply, so one-year subgroup jumps should be read cautiously. Hopedale has the smallest classes in the field (10.1:1) and spends less than six of nine neighbors; Hopkinton High, at 99th percentile, spends less ($15,978) and runs classes 41% larger. The Hopedale district ranks 122nd of 351, and district all-grades scores exceed the school’s own, suggesting the elementary grades outperform the secondary program. For contrast, Milford High is 1.36 miles away and ranked 28th, with an 80.0% graduation rate, 15.1% dropout rate, and 10th-grade math at 27.44%—roughly 36 points below Hopedale’s. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not reported, and per-pupil spending is only available through 2020–21.
Thank you for your feedback!