Summary:
ZIP code 01364 has just one public high school — Ralph C Mahar Regional in Orange, Massachusetts — serving grades 7–12 with 509 students, so the building mixes middle-school and high-school grades in a single setting. It is part of the Ralph C Mahar district, which ranks 308th of 351 districts in Massachusetts, placing it in the 12th percentile with 1 star. The school reports a favorable 9:1 student-teacher ratio and $18,470 in spending per student for 2020–2021; free/reduced-lunch data is not reported. Because this is the only high school in the ZIP code, there are no local peer schools to compare against, so the state and the school's own prior-year results are the best yardsticks.
The news is not all negative. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency improved in every tested subject: ELA rose to 25.55%, math to 28.44%, and science to 34.55%, a jump of 13.50 percentage points in science. Eighth-grade science sits only 4.38 percentage points below the state average, and 8th-grade civics improved 8.37 points year over year, narrowing its state gap to 12.25 points. The graduation rate is 83.3%, which is 2.6 percentage points above the district's 80.7%, and the district's rank history has moved up from 7th percentile and 0 stars in 2023–2024 to 13th percentile in 2025–2026.
High-school-level results remain the clearest concern. Tenth-grade science proficiency is 8.20% against 40.50% statewide — a 32.30-point gap — and Biology End of Course is 17.86% versus 37.68%. Tenth-grade math (19.35%) and ELA (22.97%) also trail the state by more than 22 points, while the dropout rate is 12.8%, slightly above the district's 12.0%. Note that in this file the school and district test scores are identical, year-over-year changes compare different cohorts rather than the same students, and the school's overall scores are below state averages.
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