Best High Schools in Zip Code 01867

ZIP code 01867 in Reading, Massachusetts contains exactly one public high school: Reading Memorial High, a grades 9–12 school with 1,094 students served by the Reading district. Because it is the only high school in the area, there is no local cross-school comparison — the useful benchmarks are how the school compares with its own district and with Massachusetts overall. It stands out as a strong, above-state performer that has been a 4-star school in each of the last three rank-history years. Its most recent state rank is 78th out of 353 high schools, placing it in the 78th percentile, while the district ranks 43rd out of 351 districts, in the 88th percentile with 4 stars. Its rank moved from 70 of 348 in 2023–24 to 80 of 349 in 2024–25 and 78 of 353 in 2025–26, so it remains in the top quartile of Massachusetts high schools.

Test results are the school's clearest strength. In 2025–26, 10th-grade proficiency was 65.11% in ELA, 62.32% in Mathematics, 48.15% in Science, and 51.46% in Biology end-of-course. The state figures for those same assessments were 45.48%, 43.73%, 40.50%, and 37.68%, so the school's advantage over the state ranged from +7.65 percentage points in Science to +19.63 points in ELA. The school's edge over its own district is much smaller — only about 0.34 to 1.46 points across all reported tests — which suggests the district as a whole is high-performing and the high school adds a modest additional edge. ELA and Mathematics are the strongest subjects, while Science is the relative weak spot. Tenth-grade Science fell from 58.12% in 2024–25 to 48.15% in 2025–26, a drop of 9.97 points, but the district fell nearly the same amount (57.39% to 47.81%), pointing to a district-wide pattern rather than a school-specific decline; even so, the school stayed 7.65 points above the state.

Completion outcomes are excellent: a 98.5% graduation rate versus 98.1% for the district, and a 0.4% dropout rate — half the district's 0.8%. The student-teacher ratio is 12.1:1 for 2024–25. Two data limitations are worth noting: the free/reduced-price lunch percentage is not populated, so economic context cannot be assessed, and the spending figure of $14,489 per student is from 2020–21 while most outcome data is from 2024–25 or 2025–26, so it should not be read as a current resource measure.