Summary:
ZIP code 02719 has just one public high school: Fairhaven High, serving grades 9–12 with 568 students as part of the Fairhaven district in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. Because it is the only high school in the area, everything below compares Fairhaven High either with its own district, with the state, or with its own past performance.
On MCAS Next Generation tests, Fairhaven High scores above the district average in every reported subject and year, but below the Massachusetts average in all of them. In 2025–2026, 10th grade English proficiency was 41.84% (district 40.69%, state 45.48%) and math was 42.96% (district 41.78%, state 43.73%) — math is just 0.77 percentage points behind the state, the school's strongest showing. Science and biology are the weakest areas relative to the state: 33.86% vs. 40.50% in science and 31.36% vs. 37.68% in biology in 2025–2026, while science trailed the state by 16.32 points in 2024–2025. Math proficiency rose 2.80 points year over year, and English, though down 2.42 points, narrowed its gap to the state because the state average fell faster.
For 2024–2025, the graduation rate is 94.0% and the dropout rate is 2.0%, both matching the district exactly, and the student-teacher ratio is 11.3, which suggests relatively small classes. The district ranks 174th out of 351 with 3 stars, while the school ranks 190th out of 353 at the 46th percentile with 2 stars — up from 219th the year before, but still mid-tier statewide. Per-student spending is $14,563, reported for 2020–2021, and free/reduced lunch data is not populated in this extract.
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