High · Massachusetts
Brighton High School
Free meals for allBrighton High School, a public high school in Brighton, Massachusetts: grades 7–12, 667 students, 9.1 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Boston.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 667
- Teachers (FTE)
- 73.7
- Students per teacher
- 9.1
- Grades
- 7–12
- High
Fewer students per teacher than 84% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 11.2 · 380 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 86% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 51% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 660 · 383 schools compared
Larger than 64% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Massachusetts's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Massachusetts: 42%14%proficient
+8.9 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 84% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 33% · 95 high schools compared
81 students tested, grades 3–8 · NextGen MCAS; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Massachusetts: 41%6.3%proficient
+6.3 points from 2023–24 school year
A lower share proficient than 84% of high schools in Massachusetts
Median 24% · 95 high schools compared
80 students tested, grades 3–8 · NextGen MCAS; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 7–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large city
- Run by
- Boston
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Boston.
Location
- Address
- 25 Warren Street, Brighton, MA 02135
- Phone
- (617)635-9873
- City or town
- Boston
- County
- Suffolk County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7–12 | 426 | 10.2 | 16% | 13% | |
Lyon High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 95 | 6.7 | — | — |
| 9–12 | 2,181 | 11.9 | — | — | |
| 9–12 | 383 | 9.6 | — | — | |
Boston Latin SchoolFree meals for all | 7–12 | 2,424 | 18.7 | 76% | 79% |
Cambridge Rindge and LatinFree meals for all | 9–12 | 2,072 | 9.3 | — | — |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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