Summary:
Rothsay Secondary is the only high school in Rothsay Public School District, serving grades 7–12 with 140 students, so it serves as both the middle school and high school for the area and is the sole point of comparison for local families.
Completion outcomes are the school's clearest strength. Its graduation rate is 95.6%, the same as the district and 10.7 percentage points above the statewide 84.9%, with a 0.0% dropout rate versus 4.2% statewide. Test proficiency is more mixed. All-grade math is 41.3% (state: 44.9%), reading is 39.7% (state: 48.6%), and science is 15.0% (state: 25.5%). By grade, math is uneven: 8th grade math is 52.4% versus 42.3% statewide and 11th grade math is 45.8% versus 35.3%, yet 7th grade math falls well below state at 22.2% versus 40.3%. Reading shows a similar split, with 10th grade essentially at state level (42.1% versus 42.5%) and 8th grade close behind (47.6% versus 50.0%), but 7th grade reading at 27.8%, far below the state's 43.5%. Science is the weakest subject overall: the End-of-Course result is 15.8% against 35.0% statewide, and even 8th grade science, 14.3%, trails the state's 16.7%.
Trends and context matter here. All-grade proficiency declined from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 in math (49.3% to 41.3%) and reading (45.71% to 39.7%), while science stayed essentially flat but low (15.22% to 15.0%). Rankings improved from 2 stars in 2023–2024 to 3 stars in 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, when the school placed 218 of 473 schools at the 54th percentile — the district reports a 60th percentile rank. With only 140 students, a handful of students can move these percentages noticeably, so year-to-year swings should be read with that small-cohort caution in mind.
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