Summary
Doherty Memorial High is a large comprehensive high school serving grades 9–12 at 299 Highland Street in Worcester, MA, with about 1,573 students. In 2025–26 it ranked 233rd of 353 Massachusetts high schools — 34th percentile, 2 stars — a meaningful improvement over much of the prior decade, when it sat mostly in the 20th–27th percentile with 1 star. Its district, Worcester, is low-ranked in this data at 304th of 351 districts (13th percentile, 1 star). Among Worcester's large 9–12 high schools, Doherty holds the best 2025–26 position, ahead of Burncoat Senior High (26th percentile), South High Community (19th), Worcester Technical High (17th), and North High (8th). The smaller University Pk Campus School ranks higher but serves roughly 233 students in grades 7–12, and the suburban Auburn Senior High and Leicester High also rank above Doherty.
On 2025–26 MCAS, Doherty's 10th graders exceeded the Worcester district in every subject and led all large Worcester comprehensives in ELA, Math, and Biology; Burncoat edged slightly ahead in Science. Even so, Doherty remains below the state in all four subjects. Biology is its relative bright spot, only about five points under the state, while Math is the widest gap, roughly 17 points below. Auburn and Leicester outscore Doherty across the board.
For 2024–25, Doherty's graduation rate was 88.5% and its dropout rate 7.2% — better than the district (85.5% and 8.5%) but trailing Burncoat, University Park, Worcester Tech, Auburn, and Leicester. Its student-teacher ratio of 15.2 is higher than most nearby schools, and per-student spending was $16,478 in 2020–21. One standout result: students experiencing homelessness ranked 3rd of 30 schools, 90th percentile, 5 stars, after a similar showing the year before.
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