Summary:
ZIP code 01605 in Worcester contains two public high schools: Worcester Technical High, a large grades 9–12 school with 1,442 students in the Worcester district, and Ma Academy for Math and Science School, a tiny grades 11–12 school with 99 students in its own Ma Academy for Math and Science district.
The two schools have very different profiles. Worcester Technical is roughly 14.6 times larger and serves all four high school grades, while MAMS serves only juniors and seniors. On completion outcomes, both look strong locally: Worcester Technical graduates 96.7% of students with a 1.6% dropout rate, well better than the Worcester district's 85.5% graduation and 8.5% dropout rates. MAMS reports 100.0% graduation and 0.0% dropout. Worcester Technical also has a lower student-teacher ratio (12.2) than MAMS (16.5).
Academic performance is where the picture gets more complicated. Worcester Technical trails the Massachusetts state average in every reported MCAS subject, with 2025–2026 gaps of about −20.55 points in 10th-grade English, −22.66 in math, −18.25 in science, and −19.39 in end-of-course biology; its largest gap is 2024–2025 physics, at 5.1% proficient versus 44.25% statewide. Its latest state rank is 293 of 353, the 17th percentile with 1 star, versus a Worcester district rank of 304 of 351 (13th percentile, 1 star). MAMS has no current test scores or current rank in this data, so its present academics cannot be judged here, though it was ranked #1 in Massachusetts with 5 stars and 100th percentile in 2002–2003, 2003–2004, and 2004–2005. Spending figures ($19,173 per student at Worcester Technical in 2020–2021; $0 reported for MAMS) and free/reduced-lunch percentages (blank for both) are incomplete, so those comparisons should be treated cautiously.
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