Summary:
ZIP code 01930 covers Gloucester, Massachusetts on Cape Ann, and it contains exactly one public high school, so families here have a single option to evaluate rather than several to compare. Gloucester High, part of the Gloucester district, serves grades 9 through 12 with 776 students. Its three-year accountability history places it at the 39th percentile with 2 stars — above the district's own standing of 259th of 351 districts, or the 26th percentile with 1 star. In other words, the high school is not what is holding the district's overall rating down.
Academically, the clearest strength is mathematics. In 2025-26, 42.37% of Gloucester High 10th graders were proficient in math, only 1.36 points below the state and 3.10 points above the district — close to parity. ELA (35.00%), Science (30.59%), and Biology (24.73%) trail the state by roughly 10 to 13 points each. The year-over-year picture is more encouraging than the raw gaps suggest: statewide ELA proficiency fell far more than the school's did, and while the state lost ground in math, the school gained 0.75 points. Science is the exception, where the school's decline outpaced the state's.
Completion rates and resources round out the picture. The 2024-25 graduation rate was 85.8% and the dropout rate 9.6% — about 1 in 10 students leaving without finishing, and slightly worse than the district's 9.4%. Staffing and funding look favorable, with a 10:1 student-to-teacher ratio and $19,870 per pupil in 2020-21, though the outcome gaps suggest class size and spending are not the binding constraints. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so the socioeconomic context cannot be established from this record. The most actionable priorities are the science and biology gap and the dropout rate; the clearest asset is a math program running ahead of the state's trajectory.
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