Summary:
ZIP code 01602 contains one public high school, Doherty Memorial High in Worcester, Massachusetts, which serves grades 9–12, enrolls 1,573 students, and is part of the Worcester district. Because it is the only high school in this ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it with, so the most useful comparisons are against its district and the state.
Doherty generally outperforms its district but trails Massachusetts averages. Its graduation rate is 88.5%, above the district's 85.5%, and its dropout rate is 7.2%, below the district's 8.5%. Its student-teacher ratio is 15.2:1. On the 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation, 34.31% of 10th graders were proficient in English language arts (district 25.70%, state 45.48%), 26.32% in math (district 20.20%, state 43.73%), and 25.21% in science (district 19.25%, state 40.50%). Biology end-of-course was the strongest result at 32.59% proficient — 12.45 points above the district and only 5.09 points below the state.
Rankings show modest improvement followed by a slight dip: 240 of 348 in 2023–2024, 222 of 349 in 2024–2025, and 233 of 353 in 2025–2026, holding 2 stars each year, while the Worcester district ranks 304 of 351 with 1 star. Note that 10th grade proficiency declined in ELA, math, and science from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and in each case the school's drop was steeper than the district's and the state's. Math is the weakest area relative to the state (a 17.41-point gap), while biology is the clearest strength. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported, and the $16,478 per-student spending figure dates to 2020–2021.
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