Summary:
ZIP code 02111 — downtown Boston and Chinatown — contains a single high school in this data set: Quincy Upper School, a grades 6–12 school at 900 Washington Street serving 557 students. Because it is the only school in the ZIP, there are no local peers to compare it against; the meaningful benchmarks are the Boston district and Massachusetts state averages.
The school's standout strengths are in completion rather than test scores. Its graduation rate is 90.9%, well above Boston's 81.3%, and its dropout rate of 1.5% is far below the district's 8.8%. Class sizes are favorable, at an 11.9-to-1 student/teacher ratio. Sixth grade is the academic bright spot: 6th-grade math proficiency (47.11%) is the only figure in the entire record that exceeds the state (42.59%), and 6th-grade ELA (38.02%) clears the district (29.33%) as well.
Proficiency elsewhere is low. Science is the deepest deficit, at 6.59% proficient across all grades versus 24.94% in the district and 40.98% statewide, with Biology at 5.88%. Seventh grade is the weakest grade level, at 9.09% ELA and 5.43% math — a sharp drop from 6th grade. Overall, the school's math and ELA results sit below both district and state, and scores fell in four of five subjects from 2024-25 to 2025-26 while the district edged up, widening every gap. Its rank sits around the 14th percentile of Massachusetts high schools, with a 1-star rating in each of the past three years. Note that free/reduced-price lunch information is unavailable, and spending data dates to 2020-21.
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