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Albert D Holland School of Technology
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 6 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 8 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 23 points since 2018, while math scores are down about 39 points.
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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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