Summary:
Zip code 02062 is served by a single high school: Norwood High, a 9–12 school at 245 Nichols Street in Norwood, part of the Norwood district, with 966 students enrolled. Because it is the only high school in this zip code, all local families at this level attend it, and the comparisons below are mainly between the school, its district, and the state.
Norwood High stands out most for completion outcomes. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate is 98.0%, above the Norwood district's 96.1%, and its dropout rate is just 0.4%, matching the district. The student-teacher ratio is a favorable 11.4 students per teacher in 2024–2025, and per-student spending was $18,277 in 2020–2021, the only spending year reported here. Rankings, however, have slipped: the school went from 158 of 348 (55th percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 190 of 349 (46th percentile, 2 stars) in 2024–2025 and 202 of 353 (43rd percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. The Norwood district overall ranks 234 of 351, at the 33rd percentile with 2 stars.
On 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, Norwood High generally outperforms its district but trails the state. Tenth-grade ELA was 45.57% proficient, essentially level with the state's 45.48% and above the district's 44.08%. Math was 40.52% (district 39.17%, state 43.73%), science was 35.24% (equal to the district, 5.26 points below the state), and biology End of Course was 24.33%, above the district's 23.92% but 13.35 points below the state — the largest gap in the record. Year over year, ELA rose 0.77 points while math fell 3.32 and science fell 5.65, though the state also declined in both. One limit: free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this record.
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