Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational Technical
1 high school in our rankings
Ranks #282 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.
Shawsheen Valley Regional Vocational Technical School District is a public regional vocational-technical district based in Billerica, Massachusetts, about 20 miles northwest of Boston. The district serves students from its member communities and operates Shawsheen Valley Vocational Technical High School, which offers career and technical education programs alongside a standard academic curriculum. The Shawsheen River, for which the district is named, runs through the region, which lies in the Merrimack Valley near the Lowell area. Billerica itself is known for its colonial-era origins, having been incorporated in 1655.
How it compares
- Strongest area: Graduation rate, in the top 17% of districts. 98.2% of high school students graduate in four years, vs 92.4% for the average MA district.
- Area to watch: Math MCAS ranks in the bottom 27% of districts.
- Trend: Math MCAS is down 22 points since 2023 (53% to 31%); statewide it fell 6 points.
- Trend: ELA MCAS is down 25 points since 2023 (68% to 43%); statewide it fell 13 points.
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Schools in Shawsheen Valley 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 (Shawsheen Valley Vocational Technical High School). "MA avg" is the average of all Massachusetts districts with high school data.
Students & classrooms
39.9% female · 59.6% male · 0.5% 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 132 full-time-equivalent teachers.
Attendance
9.6 days absent per student (MA avg 11) · 3% missed 20% or more of school days