Summary:
ZIP code 01451 covers Harvard, Massachusetts, and this data set contains exactly one high school serving that area: The Bromfield High School, a grades 9–12 school with 328 students in the Harvard district. Because there is only one high school in the area, there is nothing to compare it against locally, so the most useful approach for parents is a detailed look at how this school performs on its own and how it stacks up against the state.
Bromfield’s results are exceptionally strong. In MCAS Next Generation testing for 2025–2026, 10th graders reached 92.77% proficiency in English Language Arts, 90.36% in Mathematics, and 80.95% in Science, compared with state rates of 45.48%, 43.73%, and 40.5% — roughly double the state in the core subjects. Physics End of Course came in at 71.83% versus 46.58% statewide. The school ranked 10th of 353 high schools in 2025–2026 (97th percentile, 5 stars) and 11th of 349 in 2024–2025, after an outstanding 2nd of 348 in 2023–2024 (99th percentile). The district ranks 19th of 351 districts at the 95th percentile with 5 stars. Completion metrics are ideal: a 100.0% graduation rate in 2024–2025, above the district’s 95.5%, with a 0.0% dropout rate at both school and district levels.
One encouraging signal is momentum: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, 10th-grade ELA rose 5.10 points, Math 9.54 points, and Science 3.01 points at Bromfield, while the state declined in those same subjects. District scores sit within about one percentage point of the school’s, consistent with the area having a single high school. Two caveats: per-student spending was $19,446 in 2020–2021, but no benchmark is included here, and the free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank in this record, so it should not be read as 0%. The 2024–2025 Physics figure covers all grades, not the End of Course exam, so it is not a direct year-over-year comparison. Overall, this is a small, consistently elite school with outcomes far above state averages.
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