Summary:
ZIP code 01886, covering Westford, has two high schools serving grades 9–12: Westford Academy and Nashoba Valley Technical High School, with a combined enrollment of 2,271 students. Westford Academy, in the Westford district, enrolls 1,504 students (about 66.2%), while Nashoba Valley Technical High School, in the Nashoba Valley Regional Vocational Technical district, enrolls 767 (about 33.8%).
Westford Academy is the standout: it ranked 15th of 353 high schools in 2025–26, at the 96th percentile with 5 stars, and stayed in the top 24 in each of the last three years. Its 2025–26 MCAS proficiency was far above state: ELA 10th grade 76.21% vs 45.48%, Math 80.10% vs 43.73%, Science 78.09% vs 40.50%, and Biology 76.06% vs 37.68%; it also had a 99.2% graduation rate and 0.3% dropout rate in 2024–25. Nashoba Valley Technical High School ranked 243rd of 353 in 2025–26, at the 31st percentile with 2 stars, and its district ranked 281st of 351, at the 20th percentile with 1 star. It was below state in most core MCAS subjects, but its 2024–25 Physics proficiency was 54.55% vs the state’s 44.25%, and it still had a 97.2% graduation rate and 0.6% dropout rate.
Resource and trend comparisons are also useful. In the provided 2020–21 data, Nashoba Valley Technical High School spent $20,822 per student, about 43.6% more than Westford Academy’s $14,501, and had a lower student-teacher ratio (12.0 vs 14.6). Rank trajectories differed: Westford Academy went 9th, 24th, then 15th across 2023–24 to 2025–26; Nashoba Valley Technical went 241st, 210th, then 243rd. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are blank/unknown for both schools, and spending is from 2020–21 while most other data is from 2024–25 or 2025–26, so these figures are useful for comparison but do not prove that spending causes outcomes.
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