Roxbury Preparatory Charter
1 high school in our rankings
Ranks #303 of 328 Massachusetts school districts.
MCAS is the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations in 2026, grades 5–10 combined. Spending is total per-pupil expenditure in FY2024.
Roxbury Preparatory Charter is a public charter school district located in the Roxbury neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. Roxbury is one of the city's oldest residential neighborhoods, historically significant as a center of Black community life and institutions in Boston. As a charter school, Roxbury Preparatory Charter operates independently of the traditional town-based school system while serving students from the surrounding Boston area.
How it compares
- Best of its categories: Math MCAS, in the bottom 7% of districts. 31% of students in grades 5–10 met or exceeded expectations in 2026, vs 41% statewide in the same grades.
- Trend: Chronic absence has fallen from 49.4% in 2022 to 37% in 2025.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 7.1 points since 2023 (31.7368% to 24.6716%); statewide it fell 3.6 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 Roxbury Preparatory Charter
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 (Roxbury Preparatory Charter School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
46.7% female · 53.3% male
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 48 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
17.7 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 13.1% missed 20% or more of school days