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Hanover High
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 67 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 64 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 5 points since 2018, while math scores are down about 9 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Hanover High
Hanover High operates as a moderately sized four-year high school in Hanover, Massachusetts, one of the schools within Hanover. Current enrollment sits at 663 students spanning grades 9 through 12.
Hanover High is one of 4 schools operated by Hanover, a district that teaches 2,550 students overall.
Demographically, Hanover High records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%). Other groups include 3% Hispanic, 3% Asian. By comparison, Plymouth County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews visibly more White than its surroundings.
On the resource side, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.4:1 average.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Plymouth County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $114,201 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Plymouth County runs 141 public schools (combined enrollment of about 76,427 students), of which Hanover High is one.
Cedar Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Over the past 7-year window. Hanover High's enrollment has edged down 17% since 2018, when it stood at 801 (now 663).
In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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