Summary:
Zip code 02116 in Boston, MA contains three high schools — Snowden International High School (grades 9–12, 421 students), Edward M. Kennedy Academy for Health Careers: A Horace Mann (grades 9–12, 383 students), and Boston Adult Technical Academy (grades 11–12, 227 students) — together enrolling 1,031 students, with two of the three operating in the Boston district.
Among the schools with comparable data, the Edward M. Kennedy Academy posts the strongest results outside of testing: a 91.5% graduation rate and 6.1% dropout rate, both better than the Boston district's 81.3% and 8.8%, plus the smallest classes at a 9.5 student–teacher ratio. Snowden International also beats district averages on those measures (85.6% graduation, 6.7% dropout) with a ratio of 11.1. Test proficiency, however, is low at both. In 2025–26, Kennedy led Snowden in every shared subject — ELA 18.75% vs 10.98%, Math 18.56% vs 9.86%, and Science 14.1% vs 0% — while state proficiency sat around 43–45%. Snowden's scores fell sharply from 2024–25 (ELA 29.9% to 10.98%; Math 24.18% to 9.86%; Science 8.82% to 0%), while Kennedy's Math rose 5.92 points. Both ranked schools sit in the bottom 15% statewide; Kennedy held steady at the 13th percentile, while Snowden dropped from the 15th to the 4th percentile.
Boston Adult Technical Academy is the outlier: it spends the most per student ($30,329 in 2020–2021) but has the lowest graduation rate (67.0%) and highest dropout rate (21.6%), and it reports no test scores or rank history, serving only grades 11–12. Note that free/reduced lunch data is blank for all three schools, and spending figures predate the outcome data, so this comparison is descriptive only.
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