Trends in MCAS passing rates at high schools, 2003-2006

This table shows four-year trends in the percentage of students who passed the MCAS test in grade 10 English and math, the exams required for graduation. Individual high schools within a district are not shown. For example, Newton is listed, but not Newton North and Newton South high schools individually. The state has not released the percentage of students who met the graduation requirement by passing both tests. "N/A" indicates that no scores were reported for that district in that year. Source: Boston.com calculations from Massachusetts Department of Education figures.

School district	English passing %				Math passing %
	2003	2004	2005	2006	2003	2004	2005	2006
Abby Kelley Foster Charter, Worcester	N/A	100	94	96	N/A	95	88	92
Abington Public Schools	96	94	97	98	87	92	92	94
Academy of the Pacific Rim Charter, Hyde Park	96	100	100	100	93	100	97	100
Acton-Boxborough Regional	98	96	96	99	96	97	95	99
Adams-Cheshire Regional	88	93	93	96	79	90	90	83
Agawam Public Schools	90	93	95	94	86	91	92	93
Amesbury Public Schools	93	96	95	96	82	89	89	94
Amherst-Pelham Regional	95	94	93	97	89	90	91	94
Andover Public Schools	98	98	97	98	98	98	97	97
Arlington Public Schools	96	93	95	94	89	87	91	93
Ashburnham-Westminster Regional	97	95	98	97	92	92	97	96
Ashland Public Schools	97	100	98	99	94	99	96	97
Assabet Valley Vocational, Marlborough	81	87	93	96	61	75	84	91
Athol-Royalston Regional	85	88	86	93	77	78	76	84
Attleboro Public Schools	89	90	88	93	74	86	84	90
Auburn Public Schools	92	94	95	93	82	95	94	89
Avon Public Schools	89	93	93	95	65	91	80	75
Ayer Public Schools	94	97	97	94	83	91	88	89
Barnstable Public Schools	93	92	93	94	82	85	88	88
Bedford Public Schools	98	98	96	97	91	96	96	96
Belchertown Public Schools	95	94	93	96	89	93	89	92
Bellingham Public Schools	93	93	90	96	88	81	85	90
Belmont Public Schools	97	98	95	97	94	97	94	96
Berkshire Hills Regional, Stockbridge	93	95	97	95	80	94	92	91
Berlin-Boylston Regional	96	98	95	99	93	93	94	94
Beverly Public Schools	87	88	91	95	83	87	86	92
Billerica Public Schools	97	93	97	96	92	91	96	97
Blackstone Valley Vocational, Upton	96	97	96	98	83	94	92	91
Blackstone-Millville Regional	96	97	97	97	91	92	91	96
Blue Hills Vocational, Canton	92	90	91	99	72	78	84	95
Boston Public Schools	70	75	73	85	64	73	67	78
Boston Collegiate Charter	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
Bourne Public Schools	96	95	88	98	89	91	87	96
Braintree Public Schools	97	96	97	97	97	95	93	93
Bridgewater-Raynham Regional	96	95	92	93	88	92	92	91
Bristol County Agricultural, Dighton	97	97	99	99	92	97	95	97
Bristol-Plymouth Vocational, Taunton	91	90	97	99	68	81	86	90
Brockton Public Schools	80	84	81	91	63	70	68	77
Brookline Public Schools	95	94	94	97	92	93	91	95
Burlington Public Schools	96	97	95	97	91	97	96	95
Cambridge Public Schools	80	79	81	93	69	74	71	87
Canton Public Schools	98	95	96	98	93	96	95	95
Cape Cod Vocational, Harwich	89	91	97	95	66	82	94	93
Carver Public Schools	94	95	92	99	85	93	88	97
Central Berkshire Regional, Dalton	97	96	97	98	94	93	94	89
Champion Charter, Brockton	50	59	50	74	29	23	44	39
Chatham Public Schools	95	89	96	100	83	83	98	100
Chelmsford Public Schools	97	98	98	98	95	94	95	96
Chelsea Public Schools	59	63	77	80	48	64	68	63
Chicopee Public Schools	84	81	83	88	72	70	75	73
City On A Hill Charter, Boston	90	95	95	95	67	79	91	94
Clinton Public Schools	91	90	92	95	77	90	92	91
Codman Academy Charter, Dorchester	100	100	100	95	68	81	75	85
Cohasset Public Schools	100	100	98	100	94	99	100	100
Concord-Carlisle Regional	99	100	99	99	97	100	98	98
Danvers Public Schools	96	94	94	97	87	89	91	92
Dartmouth Public Schools	94	96	94	96	90	94	93	91
Dedham Public Schools	95	96	93	97	95	94	91	91
Dennis-Yarmouth Regional	91	89	89	89	86	84	86	86
Dighton-Rehoboth Regional	97	94	95	96	90	90	94	88
Douglas Public Schools	95	96	96	95	80	90	93	91
Dover-Sherborn Regional	100	100	100	100	99	98	100	100
Dracut Public Schools	95	96	94	95	86	94	88	89
Dudley-Charlton Regional	96	99	95	98	90	94	92	93
Duxbury Public Schools	97	99	100	100	93	94	98	94
East Bridgewater Public Schools	94	96	99	98	89	92	95	98
East Longmeadow Public Schools	97	97	97	99	94	93	94	96
Easthampton Public Schools	90	94	91	98	85	92	85	89
Easton Public Schools	98	99	98	99	94	97	97	96
Essex Agricultural, Hathorne	84	84	95	99	61	62	71	91
Everett Public Schools	88	89	82	91	79	87	76	79
Fairhaven Public Schools	89	95	92	98	75	93	91	93
Fall River Public Schools	75	78	74	79	50	63	61	62
Falmouth Public Schools	95	90	94	96	90	91	90	94
Fitchburg Public Schools	80	83	82	83	64	76	77	74
Foxborough Public Schools	99	98	97	97	96	95	91	94
Foxborough Regional Charter	100	100	94	97	90	100	86	85
Framingham Public Schools	93	92	92	96	92	90	92	93
Francis W Parker Charter, Devens	100	100	100	98	98	100	98	97
Franklin Public Schools	96	96	97	98	92	96	95	96
Franklin County Vocational, Turners Falls	87	93	89	94	80	83	85	83
Frederick Douglass Charter, Hyde Park	N/A	0	93		N/A	0	65
Freetown-Lakeville Regional	93	95	96	97	83	90	88	93
Frontier Regional, Deerfield	97	95	98	97	95	94	99	94
Gardner Public Schools	92	89	85	92	83	83	81	86
Gateway Regional, Huntington	98	96	91	98	77	93	89	89
Georgetown Public Schools	97	100	98	96	90	96	97	96
Gill-Montague Regional	92	85	94	91	78	79	90	87
Gloucester Public Schools	88	93	88	94	75	83	86	87
Grafton Public Schools	96	92	94	99	89	91	92	95
Granby Public Schools	92	95	97	100	83	92	97	92
Greater Fall River Vocational	85	84	91	96	66	66	76	85
Greater Lawrence Vocational, Andover	68	70	76	85	48	58	59	63
Greater Lowell Vocational, Tyngsborough	77	78	80	90	62	70	71	77
Greater New Bedford Vocational	85	86	90	93	54	75	76	85
Greenfield Public Schools	87	82	86	94	80	79	84	88
Groton-Dunstable Regional	97	97	98	99	96	98	99	96
Hadley Public Schools	100	100	100	98	98	100	100	95
Hamilton-Wenham Regional	96	98	98	98	95	98	98	96
Hampden-Wilbraham Regional	98	97	97	98	93	95	95	95
Hampshire Regional, Westhampton	94	97	98	98	81	96	93	93
Hanover Public Schools	95	97	99	98	95	96	97	96
Harvard Public Schools	100	100	100	99	100	98	100	99
Harwich Public Schools	93	99	93	92	81	97	88	93
Hatfield Public Schools	100	93	97	97	100	97	97	97
Haverhill Public Schools	89	88	86	90	72	81	73	79
Health Careers Academy Charter, Boston	89	97	98	91	62	79	91	72
Hingham Public Schools	100	98	99	100	96	96	97	98
Holbrook Public Schools	89	88	85	93	72	78	80	80
Holliston Public Schools	98	99	96	98	96	98	96	98
Holyoke Public Schools	60	64	73	78	45	54	63	64
Hopedale Public Schools	97	97	100	100	86	97	97	98
Hopkinton Public Schools	98	99	99	99	94	97	96	98
Hudson Public Schools	91	95	92	97	83	94	89	92
Hull Public Schools	98	87	89	92	76	79	91	82
Ipswich Public Schools	97	99	98	96	95	97	94	93
King Philip Regional, Wrentham	98	98	96	97	94	96	93	95
Lawrence Public Schools	63	64	68	65	47	52	54	46
Lee Public Schools	97	92	97	99	81	89	96	92
Leicester Public Schools	94	89	95	94	86	88	88	86
Lenox Public Schools	98	93	100	99	98	92	98	99
Leominster Public Schools	87	86	87	90	74	83	85	87
Lexington Public Schools	98	96	97	98	93	94	97	98
Lincoln-Sudbury Regional	98	98	99	99	95	97	97	97
Littleton Public Schools	100	97	98	98	94	91	93	93
Longmeadow Public Schools	99	97	98	100	95	94	95	98
Lowell Public Schools	78	80	80	86	64	72	72	77
Ludlow Public Schools	95	88	90	94	87	85	87	86
Lunenburg Public Schools	94	97	92	95	90	93	89	94
Lynn Public Schools	79	78	79	85	67	73	73	78
Lynnfield Public Schools	100	99	96	98	99	99	97	98
Malden Public Schools	78	84	84	89	69	78	79	84
Manchester Essex Regional	100	100	100	99	88	98	94	99
Mansfield Public Schools	98	93	97	98	94	91	97	95
Marblehead Public Schools	97	96	98	98	90	93	96	95
Marlborough Public Schools	92	91	95	96	92	90	92	94
Marshfield Public Schools	95	97	97	97	86	94	96	94
Martha's Vineyard Regional	90	91	94	98	88	94	94	97
Masconomet Regional, Topsfield	98	98	97	98	95	97	97	95
Mashpee Public Schools	93	91	93	96	83	90	85	94
Maynard Public Schools	94	97	96	93	83	93	94	87
Medfield Public Schools	98	100	98	99	97	99	97	99
Medford Public Schools	85	86	89	93	76	84	85	87
Media and Technology Charter, Boston	95	96	96	100	89	91	93	100
Medway Public Schools	98	98	98	99	93	99	95	96
Melrose Public Schools	93	94	92	96	87	89	87	91
Mendon-Upton Regional	98	97	99	99	89	95	98	97
Methuen Public Schools	90	89	89	93	79	83	82	83
Middleborough Public Schools	96	92	94	94	85	87	86	88
Milford Public Schools	90	86	91	95	80	89	88	92
Millbury Public Schools	91	95	93	99	81	87	95	98
Millis Public Schools	99	96	100	95	90	94	100	97
Milton Public Schools	95	94	94	96	90	91	92	90
Minuteman Vocational, Lexington	90	92	92	98	84	90	89	87
Mohawk Trail Regional, Shelburne Falls	96	91	92	93	82	87	89	86
Monson Public Schools	91	91	97	96	82	83	93	91
Montachusett Vocational, Fitchburg	83	90	94	96	72	78	89	91
Mount Greylock Regional, Williamstown	96	99	96	95	85	97	92	96
Mystic Valley Regional Charter, Malden	N/A	95	97	100	N/A	95	97	97
Nantucket Public Schools	94	92	95	96	92	88	93	91
Narragansett Regional, Baldwinville	93	95	92	93	89	92	89	88
Nashoba Regional, Bolton	96	97	96	98	95	97	96	96
Nashoba Valley Vocational, Westford	80	86	93	96	70	84	79	89
Natick Public Schools	97	95	97	98	91	95	92	96
Nauset Regional, Orleans	99	99	98	98	96	99	98	98
Needham Public Schools	99	99	98	99	98	97	98	98
New Bedford Public Schools	73	75	77	84	58	69	69	71
New Leadership Academy Charter, Springfield	78	77	83	91	13	74	57	64
Newburyport Public Schools	93	95	96	95	86	90	95	93
Newton Public Schools	95	96	96	98	93	94	95	97
Norfolk County Agricultural, Walpole	99	100	100	98	87	95	98	97
North Adams Public Schools	87	85	92	92	76	78	84	81
North Andover Public Schools	96	96	95	95	91	91	94	91
North Attleborough Public Schools	97	97	94	99	87	94	91	96
North Brookfield Public Schools	98	82	90	100	96	85	87	94
North Central Charter, Fitchburg	N/A	93	78	93	N/A	80	70	84
North Middlesex Regional, Townsend	95	95	98	97	87	95	96	95
North Reading Public Schools	98	96	95	100	96	96	94	97
North Shore Vocational, Middleton	92	87	92	96	75	82	86	89
Northampton Public Schools	93	91	94	97	83	87	91	95
Northampton-Smith Vocational	83	80	90	90	67	74	83	74
Northborough-Southborough Regional	100	98	97	100	97	95	97	99
Northbridge Public Schools	94	95	96	97	84	95	90	89
Northeast Metro Vocational, Wakefield	83	79	88	88	74	77	82	82
Northern Berkshire Vocational, North Adams	91	95	94	95	70	88	85	88
Norton Public Schools	95	96	99	97	86	86	96	91
Norwell Public Schools	97	99	99	99	95	99	98	96
Norwood Public Schools	92	95	95	98	83	91	90	91
Old Colony Vocational, Rochester	84	87	94	96	69	82	91	89
Old Rochester Regional, Mattapoisett	97	97	96	98	88	97	95	97
Oxford Public Schools	93	91	95	95	81	80	90	90
Palmer Public Schools	93	89	96	90	83	85	96	88
Pathfinder Vocational, Palmer	83	89	90	97	72	84	87	79
Peabody Public Schools	87	89	90	93	80	84	82	89
Pembroke Public Schools	N/A	0	95	96	N/A	0	92	88
Pentucket Regional, West Newbury	100	98	97	98	94	95	92	92
Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter, Hadley	100	100	93	95	92	98	87	92
Pioneer Valley Regional, Northfield	97	96	99	98	83	87	89	98
Pittsfield Public Schools	88	90	89	90	76	83	84	82
Plymouth Public Schools	93	94	95	96	82	87	89	91
Prospect Hill Academy Charter, Somerville	100	100	100	100	91	100	98	100
Provincetown Public Schools	92	100	96	94	81	85	96	100
Quabbin Regional, Barre	97	95	96	96	94	95	95	93
Quaboag Regional, Warre	93	85	92	94	78	86	91	92
Quincy Public Schools	89	91	91	95	86	90	88	88
Ralph Mahar Regional, Orange	89	92	94	94	88	90	93	88
Randolph Public Schools	87	87	82	90	77	79	81	79
Reading Public Schools	98	98	97	98	96	97	96	98
Revere Public Schools	80	89	87	90	68	81	84	84
Rockland Public Schools	90	94	90	96	77	88	77	87
Rockport Public Schools	99	99	98	96	92	97	91	90
Roxbury Charter High	N/A	0	83		N/A	0	69
Sabis International Charter, Springfield	98	93	100	99	91	87	97	98
Salem Public Schools	85	88	81	90	73	84	77	85
Sandwich Public Schools	98	97	97	98	93	94	95	97
Saugus Public Schools	90	91	92	96	78	88	90	92
Scituate Public Schools	96	97	99	98	96	95	95	97
Seekonk Public Schools	90	94	95	99	72	87	88	92
Sharon Public Schools	98	97	98	97	97	97	97	97
Shawsheen Valley Vocational, Billerica	96	95	93	97	82	91	89	88
Shrewsbury Public Schools	98	97	97	99	97	96	95	97
Silver Lake Regional, Kingston	96	92	94	97	85	85	91	92
Somerset Public Schools	96	93	93	98	88	83	92	98
Somerville Public Schools	87	76	82	86	80	76	80	82
South Hadley Public Schools	97	90	95	96	91	92	88	92
South Middlesex Vocational, Framingham	66	67	79	83	53	55	70	69
South Shore Charter, Hull	84	100	94	97	63	100	87	94
South Shore Vocational, Hanover	89	92	95	95	80	87	90	94
Southbridge Public Schools	79	84	80	79	65	77	68	74
Southeastern Vocational, South Easton	82	84	89	88	54	75	73	77
Southern Berkshire Regional, Sheffield	91	96	96	93	77	88	87	88
Southern Worcester Vocational, Charlton	89	91	90	96	70	83	90	91
Southwick-Tolland Regional	89	91	93	97	71	87	90	94
Spencer-East Brookfield Regional	91	93	90	96	88	90	89	88
Springfield Public Schools	66	72	70	79	47	61	54	64
Stoneham Public Schools	97	96	97	98	90	96	96	91
Stoughton Public Schools	94	96	93	97	86	89	87	91
Sturgis Charter, Hyannis	100	96	100	100	98	91	91	99
Sutton Public Schools	99	99	97	97	97	97	96	92
Swampscott Public Schools	96	97	95	97	92	92	94	95
Swansea Public Schools	92	93	94	95	87	87	90	90
Tantasqua Regional, Fiskdale	88	90	89	93	84	91	87	90
Taunton Public Schools	86	83	83	92	73	79	81	86
Tewksbury Public Schools	97	95	93	97	94	96	93	94
Tri-County Vocational, Franklin	90	88	92	98	77	78	86	95
Triton Regional, Byfield	96	93	94	93	91	90	89	89
Tyngsborough Public Schools	95	98	96	98	89	95	93	96
Upper Cape Cod Vocational, Bourne	91	91	96	94	66	83	86	89
Uxbridge Public Schools	93	89	95	91	89	87	94	89
Wachusett Regional, Jefferson	96	97	95	97	92	94	92	95
Wakefield Public Schools	94	96	94	94	88	94	92	94
Walpole Public Schools	98	99	96	98	95	96	95	91
Waltham Public Schools	90	91	93	95	87	86	90	90
Ware Public Schools	98	91	86	94	89	92	86	83
Wareham Public Schools	98	90	93	97	87	86	92	91
Watertown Public Schools	91	93	92	96	90	91	91	93
Wayland Public Schools	98	98	98	100	97	96	97	100
Webster Public Schools	85	92	95	91	73	78	87	80
Wellesley Public Schools	99	97	98	99	96	96	98	98
West Boylston Public Schools	100	96	99	98	86	92	98	92
West Bridgewater Public Schools	96	98	99	100	84	96	99	100
West Springfield Public Schools	80	90	91	89	73	91	90	81
Westborough Public Schools	98	96	97	97	94	97	96	97
Westfield Public Schools	90	89	88	92	82	86	83	89
Westford Public Schools	98	98	97	99	97	98	98	98
Weston Public Schools	98	99	100	99	97	99	100	98
Westport Community Public Schools	79	89	88	98	69	81	85	89
Westwood Public Schools	100	99	96	99	98	97	95	97
Weymouth Public Schools	91	89	90	94	81	86	84	90
Whitman-Hanson Regional, Whitman	96	95	90	94	88	90	87	88
Whittier Vocational, Haverhill	81	86	91	95	51	80	85	96
Wilmington Public Schools	93	96	97	99	88	93	95	97
Winchendon Public Schools	79	90	91	98	66	86	86	96
Winchester Public Schools	98	99	98	99	95	97	97	99
Winthrop Public Schools	97	89	90	96	81	83	86	89
Woburn Public Schools	95	95	97	97	89	91	93	92
Worcester Public Schools	76	76	80	86	62	64	68	73