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Medway High
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MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 65 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 56 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 15 points since 2018, while math scores are down about 30 points.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Medway High
Medway High is a four-year high school of close-knit scale in Medway, Massachusetts, part of Medway, teacheing 622 students in grades 9 through 12.
Medway High is one of 4 schools operated by Medway, a district that serves 2,158 students overall.
On demographics, Medway High logs that the largest single group is White, at 79% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 10% Hispanic, 4% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Norfolk County as a whole is about 70% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.8:1. The state averages around 23.4:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.
Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Norfolk County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $130,739 per year, about 59% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Norfolk County's 198 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,300 students), Medway High is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is John D Mc Govern Elementary, roughly 1.3 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.
The school occupies a residential site.
Five-year trend. Medway High's enrollment has contracted 15% since 2018, when it stood at 728 (now 622). Over the same period, the White share contracted from 90% to 79%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.7:1 in 2018 to 13.8:1 in 2025.
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