Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical
1 high school in our rankings
Ranks #277 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grade 10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical High School is a public regional vocational-technical school district serving communities in the Greater Lowell area of northeastern Massachusetts, roughly 25 miles northwest of Boston. As a regional vocational-technical district, it offers career-focused programs that combine academic coursework with hands-on technical training in a range of trades and technical fields. The district is located in the city of Lowell, a historic mill city on the Merrimack River that was a center of American textile manufacturing in the nineteenth century and is now part of the Lowell National Historical Park. The district's schools serve students from multiple member communities across the region.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 6% of districts. Students attend 95.8% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: SAT scores rank in the bottom 14% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 21% in 2022 to 7.6% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 19 points since 2023 (56% to 37%); statewide it fell 13 points.
A district's overall rank is the average statewide percentile of its ranked schools, with a 10% discount for single-school districts. Category standings compare the average of each district's ranked schools and count only districts with data. How we rank
Schools in Greater Lowell Regional Vocational Technical
We rank high schools that report SAT results and elementary schools with grade 3 MCAS results, so some of the district's schools (middle schools, for example) aren't listed. Elementary ELA and Math are 2024–2026 averages of grade 3 results.
MCAS results
Share of students meeting or exceeding expectations, compared with the state. Statewide 10th-grade results dropped after 2024, when passing the MCAS stopped being a graduation requirement. There was no test in 2020.
High school results
Averages of the district's ranked high schools (Gr Lowell Regional Vocational Technical). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.7% female · 51.9% male · 0.4% nonbinary
Spending & teachers
Spending is total per-pupil expenditure from all sources. Dollar figures aren't adjusted for inflation. "MA median" is the middle district in each year; small districts can spend far more per student, so the median is a fairer yardstick than the average. Salary is the average across 213 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
7.5 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.5% missed 20% or more of school days