Summary:
ZIP code 02148 in Malden, Massachusetts is served by a single public high school, Malden High, which enrolls 1,890 students in grades 9–12 at 77 Salem Street and belongs to the Malden district. Because it is the only high school in this ZIP code, there is no local school-to-school comparison; the useful yardsticks are the Malden district average and the Massachusetts average.
On MCAS Next Generation tests, Malden High consistently performs above the Malden district average in every reported subject for both 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, though the margins are small—roughly 0.7 to 1.8 percentage points. However, it trails the state in every reported subject. In 2025–2026, 10th-grade ELA proficiency was 36.9% (8.6 points below the state) and 10th-grade math was 33.3% (10.5 points below the state); in 2024–2025, math was 31.0%, 13.6 points below the state, which was the largest gap. Science results vary by year and grade grouping: 10th-grade Science was 41.6% in 2024–2025 (4.3 points below the state) but 32.0% in 2025–2026, and Biology was 37.3% across all grades in 2024–2025 versus 30.3% for End of Course in 2025–2026.
The school’s Malden district ranking improved slightly, from 224th in 2023–2024 and 2024–2025 to 217th in 2025–2026, moving from the 36th to the 39th percentile while keeping a 2-star rating—below the state midpoint. The 2024–2025 graduation rate was 85.7% (district 85.2%) and the dropout rate was 9.2% (district 9.1%). Per-student spending was $14,949 in 2020–2021 and the student–teacher ratio was 16:1 in 2024–2025. The free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank in the data, so economic context is unknown. In short, Malden High is a relative strength locally but still faces meaningful state-level proficiency gaps, especially in math and ELA.
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