Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical
1 high school in our rankings
Ranks #305 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.
Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational Technical School District is a public regional vocational-technical district serving students from multiple communities north of Boston. Its high school, Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School, is located in Wakefield, a town roughly 10 miles north of Boston in Middlesex County. The district offers career and technical education programs alongside a college-preparatory curriculum, drawing students from member towns in the region. Like other regional vocational schools in Massachusetts, it is governed by a regional school committee made up of representatives from its member communities.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Attendance, in the top 25% of districts. Students attend 95% of school days, vs 93.7% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: AP results rank in the bottom 8% of districts.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 23.8% in 2022 to 10.3% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 9 points since 2023 (46% to 37%); statewide it fell 13 points.
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Schools in Northeast Metropolitan 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 (Northeast Metro Regional Vocational). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
47.1% female · 52.5% 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 120 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
8.9 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 1.7% missed 20% or more of school days