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Marlborough High
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 35 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 6 points since 2018, while math scores are down about 7 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Marlborough High
As a middle-of-the-pack senior high in Marlborough, Massachusetts, Marlborough High works with 985 students from grades 9 through 12, run under Marlborough. That puts it 27% above the typical public school in Massachusetts, which averages around 777 students.
Marlborough runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 4,728 students. Marlborough High is one of those campuses.
On the student-mix side, Marlborough High lists that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school records 27% White, 6% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Middlesex County as a whole is about 9% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Marlborough High has 87 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.3:1. The state averages around 23.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.
In the surrounding community, Middlesex County reports that median household earnings sit near $130,847, 60% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, Middlesex County runs 386 public schools (combined enrollment of about 215,896 students), of which Marlborough High is one.
Nearest neighbor: Goodnow Brothers Elementary School, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.
Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Marlborough High has declined 11%, going from 1,110 students in 2018 to 985 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share declined from 46% to 27%.
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