Summary:
ZIP code 02021 is home to 6 schools — 3 elementary, 1 middle, and 2 high schools — serving 4,103 students across two districts: Canton Public Schools (5 schools, 3,193 students) and Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical (1 school, 910 students). Canton is rated 4 stars, ranked 58 of 351 districts (83rd percentile), while Blue Hills is rated 2 stars, ranked 246 of 351 (30th percentile).
Within Canton, every reported 2025–2026 MCAS subject at every school came in above the state average. John F Kennedy is the strongest elementary option, ranking 101 of 899 (89th percentile, 4 stars) and improving from 237th in 2023–2024. Its all-grade proficiency is 60.66% ELA, 71.84% math (30.73 points above state), and 63.64% science. Lt Peter M Hansen (198/899) and Dean S Luce (238/899) are also 4-star schools, though Luce’s science, 43.33%, sits only 2.35 points above state and its all-grade science fell from 61.11% the prior year. At the secondary level, Wm H Galvin Middle ranks 77 of 478 (84th percentile) with 8th-grade math at 75.88% versus a state average of 41.67%, and Canton High ranks 65 of 353 (82nd percentile) with a 96.1% graduation rate and 1.3% dropout rate.
Blue Hills Regional Vocational Technical offers a contrasting profile: the ZIP’s highest graduation rate, 98.2%, and a 0.0% dropout rate, but below-state proficiency in ELA (38.91%), math (34.87%), science (30.87%), and biology (30.74%), plus a declining rank from 165 of 348 to 209 of 353. Its per-student spending of $23,816 is roughly 31% above the Canton average, and its student-teacher ratio of 11.0 is lower than Canton High’s 13.1. Notably, free/reduced-lunch data was blank for all six schools, so economic comparisons are not possible here, and spending and staffing do not map simply onto test results.
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