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Woburn High
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 297 | 24% |
| Grade 10 | 322 | 26% |
| Grade 11 | 287 | 23% |
| Grade 12 | 344 | 27% |
| Ungraded | 9 | 1% |
School pathway
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 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 18 points since 2018, while math scores are down about 17 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.0% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 56.0% | 51.0% |
| 2022-23 | 58.0% | 43.0% |
| 2021-22 | 62.0% | 46.0% |
| 2020-21 | 67.0% | 48.0% |
| 2018-19 | 65.0% | 55.0% |
Where Woburn High ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Massachusetts | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #175 of 327 ▼ 43 | #47 of 58 ▼ 11 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #169 of 326 ▼ 17 | #42 of 58 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -11.5pp | #69 of 315 | #10 of 58 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,259 | #71 of 379 | #24 of 63 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.2:1 | #157 of 325 | #24 of 57 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.5% | #71 of 325 | #19 of 57 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -4.4% | #154 of 188 | #23 of 30 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,259 | 112 | 11.2:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 1,228 | 104.8 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 1,178 | 110.8 | 10.6:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 1,236 | 93 | 13.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 1,317 | 104.6 | 12.6:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 1,356 | 97 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 1,359 | 105 | 12.9:1 | 28% (387) |
| 2000-01 | 1,275 | N/A | N/A | 5% (69) |
| 1990-91 | 1,168 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students down 4% (1,317 to 1,259); teachers up 7% (104.6 to 112).
About Woburn High
Woburn High is a large high school in Woburn, Massachusetts. It enrolled 1,259 students in grades 9 through 12 for the 2024-25 school year. Statewide, high schools in Massachusetts average about 777 students each.
Woburn has 10 schools; together they serve 4,520 students.
At 59%, White students outnumber all other groups at Woburn High combined. Other students are 19% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% Asian, and 4% multiracial. The chance that two students picked at random at Woburn High belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 60%.
Woburn High employs 112 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 11.2:1. The average ratio among high schools in Massachusetts is 23.4:1, higher than at this school.
Census estimates describe Middlesex County this way: median household income is about $130,847, about 60% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 5% of residents are in poverty. Federal data list 386 public schools in Middlesex County, with a combined enrollment of about 215,896.
The shortest distance from Woburn High to another public school is about 0.1 miles, to Malcolm White. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools.
NCES assigns Woburn High the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 1,236 in 2020-21 and 1,259 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 11.2:1, from 13.3:1.
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