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Albert D Holland School of Technology
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding Expectations7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Albert D Holland School of Technology
Set in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Albert D Holland School of Technology is a low-enrollment four-year high school, part of Boston. It educates 399 students across grades 7 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 49% leaner than the state mean of about 777.
Albert D Holland School of Technology is one of 109 schools operated by Boston, a district that educates 46,437 students overall.
Demographically, Albert D Holland School of Technology logs that 51% of students identify as Black, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 40% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 3% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 18% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.
Around the school, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,631 per year, 51% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Suffolk County's 157 public schools (combined enrollment of about 75,679 students), Albert D Holland School of Technology is one campus in the mix.
Frederick Pilot Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The campus sits in a downtown setting.
Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Albert D Holland School of Technology has declined 15%, going from 472 students in 2018 to 399 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 71% to 51%. Class-load math has fell: from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.
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