Summary
Martha's Vineyard Regional High is the island's public high school in Oak Bluffs, Massachusetts, serving roughly 744 students in grades 9 through 12 as part of the Martha's Vineyard district. It ranks 144th of 353 Massachusetts high schools (59th percentile, 3 stars), a step up from its 2-star years from 2016–17 through 2018–19. It peaked at the 64th percentile in 2021–22 and has since held in the high-50s to low-60s — stable and slightly above average, but no longer climbing.
Test scores are above the state in most subjects but slipping. On 2025–26 10th-grade MCAS exams, the school beat the state in ELA (49.7% vs. 45.48%), math (44.85% vs. 43.73%) and biology (40.44% vs. 37.68%), but fell below it in science (37.5% vs. 40.5%). Scores have fallen four years straight — ELA from 68.59 to 49.7, math from 55.03 to 44.85, science from 50.0 to 37.5 — shrinking its ELA edge over the state from +10.4 to +4.2 points and math from +5.3 to +1.1, while science flipped from +3.2 to −3.0. Nearby Mashpee Middle-High School (61.43) and Falmouth High (60.78) both outscore it in ELA, and Falmouth leads in math (51.68 vs. 44.85). MVRHS spends $32,790 per student — roughly 43% and 47% more than those two schools — with the smallest classes of the three (8.5:1).
The biggest concern is graduation and dropout. The 2024–25 graduation rate of 83.9% was the lowest in five years, down from 88.3%, and the dropout rate jumped from 6.4% to 12.5% — roughly three-and-a-half times Mashpee's 3.5% and Falmouth's 4.0%. Special education is a genuine strength: 30th of 298 schools, 90th percentile, 5 stars, improving three years in a row. English Language Learners, though, sit at the 42nd percentile with 2 stars after three years of decline, and low-income students have been volatile (36th, then 62nd, then 55th percentile). Bottom line: a solid school with real special-education momentum, a thinning academic edge over the state, and a graduation picture worth asking about.
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