A geographically-searchable online directory of licensed child care programs across the Massachusetts, published by the Department of Early Education and Care (EEC). The directory can be searched and filtered by program/provider name, program type, age group, specific address, radius from an address, or on a route between two points.

This page consolidates data on past test administrations of the MTEL (Massachusetts Tests for Educator Licensure). Users can view detailed statistics for each cycle of administration, including numbers of test takers and pass rate summaries for each of the subject tests.

The MTEL was initiated by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education in 1998 to help ensure that Massachusetts educators can communicate adequately with students, parents/guardians, and other educators and that they are knowledgeable in the subject matter of the license(s) sought.

The Massachusetts Educator License Mapping Tool links educator licenses to courses. The current version of the mapping tool reflects several important changes from the 2018-19 pilot version, including:

• Educators with a moderate disabilities and/or severe disabilities license are considered "in-field" for all courses within the grade span and content areas for the license. (e.g. a teacher with a PreK-8 Moderate Disabilities license will be "in-field" when teaching a grade 5 math course but is considered "out-of-field" if teaching grade 4 music).


• Legacy licenses are appropriately reflected in the crosswalk.


• Some specific courses were updated with additional licensure fields deemed appropriate. (e.g. a teacher with a Business license will be "in-field" when teaching a marketing course).


• Updates to the courses that an Early Childhood or Elementary teacher is "in-field" for teaching (e.g. an Elementary teacher is not "in-field" when teaching Music).

Please note that while the mapping tool can serve as guidance to districts in considering hiring and assignment of individual educators, it does not prohibit a district from assigning an out-of-field educator to a course.

The Massachusetts Youth Risk Behavior Survey (MYRBS) was developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor priority health risk behaviors that contribute to the leading causes of death, disease, injury, and social problems among youth. The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) — in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH) — conducts the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) in randomly selected public high schools in every odd-numbered years.

The Massachusetts YRBS (MYRBS) focuses on the major risk behaviors that threaten the health and safety of young people. This anonymous survey includes questions about tobacco use, alcohol and other drug use, sexual behaviors that might lead to unintended pregnancy or sexually transmitted disease, dietary behaviors, physical activity, and behaviors associated with intentional or unintentional injuries. Since 2007, the MYRBS has been conducted jointly with the Massachusetts Youth Health Survey (MYHS) developed by DPH.

This report provides the number and percentage of Massachusetts public high school graduates who completed the MassCore curriculum each year since 2009.

MassCore is a state-recommended program of study intended to align high school coursework with college and workforce expectations. The program of studies includes the successful completion of four units of English, four units of mathematics, three units of a lab-based science, three units of history, two units of the same world language, one unit of the arts, and five additional "core" courses. A computer science course that includes rigorous mathematical or scientific concepts and aligns with the 2016 Digital Literacy and Computer Science Framework can substitute for either a mathematics course or a laboratory science course. For more information on MassCore please click here.

MassCore completion rates are not reported for any student group where the number graduated is less than 6.

This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:
MassCore

This dataset contains MCAS results since 2017, including achievement level, participation rate, average scaled score, and average student growth percentile. The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is a statewide assessment administered to help parents, students, educators, and policymakers determine where districts, schools, and students are meeting expectations and where they need additional support. This dataset contains state, district and school results; MCAS results for collaboratives can be found in the Profiles report.

Please note that Legacy MCAS results are not included in this dataset, nor are PARCC or other student assessment results. A table documenting the transition from Legacy MCAS over time can be found in the DESE Researcher's Guide linked as featured content below.

Student growth percentile (AVG_SGP) was calculated as a median for 2017. In 2018 and onward, it is a mean. For more information about MCAS data, click here.

This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:
MCAS Achievement Results

Use this interactive chart to view trends in MCAS results by school district since 2017.

The Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) is a statewide assessment administered to help parents, students, educators, and policymakers determine where districts, schools, and students are meeting expectations and where they need additional support.

This page hosts raw-to-scaled score conversion tables for tests and retests in each MCAS subject. It also contains any documents associated with the release of MCAS results in a given year, as well as reporting schedules for upcoming MCAS releases.

A new set of aspirational universal targets will help move public higher education in Massachusetts toward its goal of racial equity over the next decade. Learn how the targets were developed.