Summary:
Zip code 01887 has one public high school, Wilmington High, serving grades 9–12 in Wilmington, Massachusetts, as part of the Wilmington district. The school enrolls 619 students and is rated 4 stars, as is the district. Because it is the only high school in this zip code, there are no local school-to-school comparisons; the useful benchmarks are the Wilmington district and Massachusetts state averages. Wilmington High performs above both in every reported MCAS subject and year, and its graduation rate is above the district’s.
For parents looking at outcomes, the school’s 2024–2025 graduation rate is 95.9%, compared with 93.4% for the district, and its dropout rate is 1.4%, essentially in line with the district’s 1.3%. Its student-teacher ratio is a favorable 9.1. In 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation proficiency, Wilmington High reached 55.21% in 10th-grade English Language Arts, 57.41% in 10th-grade Mathematics, 52.56% in 10th-grade Science, and 52.98% in Biology End of Course. These are above the district and well above the state, with the largest state gaps in Biology (+15.30 percentage points) and Mathematics (+13.68 points). Per-student spending is listed at $20,901, but only for 2020–2021, so it is dated.
The main watch items are recent trends. Wilmington High’s rank moved from 61st of 348 schools in 2023–2024 (82nd percentile) to 88th of 353 in 2025–2026 (75th percentile), a slide of 27 positions and 7 percentile points, though it remains a 4-star school in the top quartile. From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, 10th-grade ELA proficiency fell 5.37 percentage points and Science fell 8.55 points; the district’s Science score fell similarly (8.58 points), suggesting a broader local pattern. Free/reduced-price lunch data is blank/unavailable and cannot be treated as 0%. No MCAS values in this dataset are suppressed or bounded.
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