Summary:
ZIP code 02382 is home to exactly one high school: Whitman Hanson Regional, a public school at 600 Franklin Street in Whitman, Massachusetts, serving grades 9–12 with 993 students in the Whitman-Hanson district. Because it is the only high school in the area, every comparison is to the school's own prior years, to its Whitman-Hanson district, or to the state.
The school's clearest strengths are in graduation and in one standout test result. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate was 91.6%, above the district's 88.9%, while the dropout rate was 5.4%, slightly above the district's 5.2%. In 2024–2025, 10th grade Science MCAS proficiency was 61.61%, well above the state's 45.89% — a +15.72 point advantage — and 10th grade ELA (49.79%) and Math (44.83%) were near state averages, with Math slightly above. Class size is moderate, with a student-teacher ratio of 14.6 (2024–2025), and per-pupil spending was $14,463 (2020–2021). Free/reduced lunch status is not reported, so socioeconomic context is unknown.
The most recent year tells a different story. In 2025–2026, MCAS proficiency fell below the state in every reported subject: ELA 33.49% vs. 45.48%, Math 30.69% vs. 43.73%, Science 36.08% vs. 40.50%, and Biology 30.21% vs. 37.68%. Compared with 2024–2025, ELA dropped 16.30 points, Math 14.14 points, and Science 25.53 points. Rank history mirrors this swing: 46th percentile (2 stars) in 2023–2024, 61st percentile (3 stars) in 2024–2025, then 38th percentile (2 stars, 220 of 353) in 2025–2026 — very close to the district's rank of 215 of 351, 39th percentile, 2 stars. The school still edges out its district in every reported MCAS subject, but the latest year places it below the state across all tested subjects.
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