Summary:
ZIP code 02215 contains just one school in this data set: Boston Arts Academy, a high school serving grades 9–12 with 500 students, located at 174 Ipswich Street in Boston and part of the Boston district. Because it is the only school in the area, there are no elementary, middle, or alternative schools listed here to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the Boston district and Massachusetts state averages.
The school's strongest results are in completion outcomes. In 2024–2025, its graduation rate was 93.9% versus 81.3% for the Boston district, and its dropout rate was 3.5% versus 8.8% for the district — a 12.6 point graduation advantage and a 5.3 point lower dropout rate. Its student-teacher ratio was 9.6 in 2024–2025, and per-student spending was reported at $27,662 for 2020–2021. Free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported in this record, so it is unknown rather than a negative. Test scores are more mixed: in 2025–2026 the school outperformed the district in 10th grade English Language Arts and in Physics, where its 27.10% proficiency compared with the district's 17.17%, but trailed the district in Mathematics and Science, and trailed the state in all four reported subjects.
Families should also note real year-to-year variability. ELA 10th grade proficiency fell from 61.60% in 2024–2025 to 34.45% in 2025–2026, and Science dropped from 43.56% to 24.56%. Ratings have swung too: 1 star and 26th percentile in 2023–2024, 3 stars and 55th percentile in 2024–2025, then 2 stars and 32nd percentile in 2025–2026. The Boston district overall ranks 299 of 351, in the 15th percentile with 1 star. In short, Boston Arts Academy helps students graduate and stay in school at rates better than its district, with Physics a relative strength, while its latest test proficiency remains below state averages and its results vary noticeably from year to year.
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