Best High Schools in Zip Code 02019

ZIP code 02019 in Bellingham, MA has two high schools—Bellingham High School (grades 8–12, 740 students) and Keough Memorial Academy (grades 7–12, 29 students)—both in the Bellingham district, with combined high-school enrollment of 769. Bellingham High School is the large comprehensive school and the main source of academic data, while Keough Memorial Academy is a very small, high-resource setting. Free/reduced-lunch data is not populated for either school, so it is not analyzed here; Keough Memorial Academy has no rank history or test-score rows in this extract.

Bellingham High School is mid-pack in state ranking and volatile: it reached the 54th percentile with 3 stars in 2024–2025, then slipped to the 49th percentile with 2 stars in 2025–2026, still above its 35th percentile in 2023–2024. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 89.8% versus the district’s 88.0%, while its dropout rate was 6.4% versus 6.0%. Science is its clearest relative strength: 10th-grade science proficiency was 49.17% in 2025–2026, above the district (45.74%) and state (40.50%), and Biology all grades was 46.51% in 2024–2025, also above both. Its largest gaps are 8th-grade ELA (21.15% vs. state 41.70%), 8th-grade math (21.05% vs. 41.67%), all-grade math (21.05% vs. 41.11%), and all-grade ELA (21.15% vs. 40.03%). Notably, 2025–2026 all-grade ELA, math, and science values exactly match the 8th-grade values, suggesting those all-grade figures may be heavily driven by the 8th-grade cohort.

Keough Memorial Academy stands out for its size and resources: its student-teacher ratio is 4.3 versus 12.4 at Bellingham High School, and its 2020–2021 per-pupil spending is $53,282 versus $18,244, about 2.9 times as high. Its available outcomes are limited and older—2022–2023 graduation rate of 66.7% and dropout rate of 16.7%—and 2024–2025 school-level grad/dropout data is not reported; with only 29 students, these rates can swing sharply with a few students. Bellingham High School enrolls about 25.5 times as many students, so families should weigh its scale and broader course access against Keough Memorial Academy’s very small classes and much higher per-pupil spending; Keough Memorial Academy’s academic performance cannot be compared on rank or test scores here.