Summary:
ZIP code 02301 in Brockton, Massachusetts is home to six high schools enrolling about 4,980 students, five of them operated by the Brockton district and one an independent charter, New Heights Charter School of Brockton. Enrollment is highly concentrated: Brockton High alone serves 3,598 students, roughly 72% of the ZIP's high schoolers, while Edison Evening Academy, Champion High School, PROMISE College and Career Academy, and Brockton Virtual Learning Academy are small, together holding about 13% of enrollment.
Academic and graduation success do not line up neatly here. PROMISE posts the strongest test results and the only mid-range state ranking (191st of 353, 2 stars), with 10th-grade ELA proficiency of 67.44% versus the district's 21.66% and the state's 45.48%, plus a jump in math from 18.18% to 39.53% year over year. New Heights shows the opposite profile: the best graduation rate (96.3%) and lowest dropout rate (0.9%) in the ZIP, far ahead of the Brockton district's 75.4% and 11.6%, yet weak proficiency (10th-grade science 5.56%, biology 5.24%). Brockton High beats district averages on graduation (84.3%) and dropout (7.5%), and stands out in Physics at 51.67% proficient, above the state's 46.58%, even as its core ELA, math, science, and biology scores sit far below state levels and declined from the prior year.
Champion, Edison, and Virtual face the steepest challenges, with dropout rates of 24.7% to 34.2% and graduation rates of 42.1% to 65.0%. Science is a system-wide weak spot: no school reaches the state's 40.50%, and PROMISE's 20.93% is the highest. Important data are missing — free/reduced-lunch figures are blank for all six schools, spending is reported for only three, PROMISE has no graduation or dropout data, and Edison reports no test scores.
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