This report shows the number and rate of Massachusetts public school students in grades 11 and 12 who completed advanced coursework since 2018.

Advanced coursework includes the following: Advanced Placement, International Baccalaureate, Project Lead the Way, dual enrollment courses, Chapter 74-approved vocational/technical secondary cooperative education programs, and other selected rigorous courses. For a full list of advanced coursework, please see the List of Advanced Courses for Accountability Reporting on the Accountability Lists, Materials, and Tools website.

Economically Disadvantaged was used 2015-2021. Low Income was used prior to 2015, and a different version of Low Income has been used since 2022. Please see the DESE Researcher's Guide for more information.

This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:
Advanced Course Completion Report

School and district report cards are designed to show parents and community members how a school or district is doing in different areas over multiple years. Report cards highlight a school or district's strengths as well as any challenges that need to be addressed in order to make sure the needs of all students are being met. For more information, visit the School and District Report Cards homepage.

Students

• Student Enrollment
• Student Demographics

Teachers

• Teacher Workforce
• Teacher Qualifications

Access to Broad and Challenging Coursework

• Access to the Arts
• Access to Digital Literacy and Computer Science Courses
• Advanced Coursework Completion
• Grade 9 Course-Passing
• MassCore Completion

Student Attendance and Discipline

• Attendance Rate
• Chronic Absenteeism Rate
• Average Number of Days Absent

Student Discipline

• Suspensions and Expulsions
• Other Incidents

High School Outcomes

• Graduation Rates
• Annual Dropout Rate

Post-Secondary Enrollment

• College-Going Rates

Student Performance on MCAS

• Student Achievement on MCAS
• Student Progress on MCAS

Finance - Dollars Spent per Student

Accountability Information

This dataset contains the number and percentage of Massachusetts public school students completing at least one arts course in grades K-12 since 2018. Arts courses are reported in the Student Course Schedule (SCS) system and align with the Massachusetts Arts Curriculum Framework. For a full list of courses and subjects, see the Arts Course List.

Beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, the arts course list was updated the "Media Arts" category. In addition, a number of arts courses were reclassified from the "General Arts" category to "Visual Arts" to more closely align to the industry standard. Since 2022, courses are no longer assigned to the "General" category.

Economically Disadvantaged was used 2015-2021. Low Income was used prior to 2015, and a different version of Low Income has been used since 2022. Please see the DESE Researcher's Guide for more information.

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

This dataset displays the number or percentage of students in Massachusetts public and charter schools and districts completing at least one Digital Literacy or Computer Science course in grades K-12.

For a full list of courses and subjects, see the Digital Literacy and Computer Science course list. For course descriptions please see EPIMS Appendices G1 and G2.

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

This dataset provides the number and percentage Massachusetts public high school students who dropped out of high school since 2008. It also includes the percentage of dropouts by grade.

Dropout rate is calculated as the percentage of students in a given grade who dropped out of school between July 1 and June 30 prior to the listed year and who did not return to school by the following October 1. Dropouts are defined as students who leave school prior to graduation for reasons other than transfer to another school. Dropout rates are not reported for any student group where the number of students is less than 6.

Economically Disadvantaged was used 2015-2021. Low Income was used prior to 2015, and a different version of Low Income has been used since 2022. Please see the DESE Researcher's Guide for more information.

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

This dataset provides the average earnings by student group per district.

Wage records are obtained from the Massachusetts Department of Unemployment Assistance (DUA) using a secure, anonymized matching process with limitations. For details on the process and suppression rules, please visit the Employment and Earnings of High School Graduates dashboard.

This dataset is one of three containing the same data that is also published in the Employment and Earnings of High School Graduates dashboard:
Average Earnings by Student Group
Average Earnings by Industry
College and Career Outcomes

This dataset shows the percentage of students who graduated from Massachusetts public schools with a regular high school diploma within 4 or 5 years. It is a long file that contains multiple rows for each school and district, with rows for different years and different student groups.

Note: Data is currently available at the school level only, as well as the state overall. For district-level graduation rates, please see the Graduation Rates report on our DESE Profiles site.

For more data about student experiences and outcomes in high school and beyond, please see the main DART: Success After High School dataset and dashboard.

This dataset contains the number and percentage of Massachusetts public school students who were retained in each grade since 2018. Student retention is defined as repeating the grade in which a student was enrolled during the previous school year.

Economically Disadvantaged was used 2015-2021. Low Income was used prior to 2015, and a different version of Low Income has been used since 2022. Please see the DESE Researcher's Guide for more information.

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

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 student enrollment data for all Massachusetts public schools and districts since 1994. It is a wide file with three groups of columns representing the following enrollment indicators:

• Number of students by grade, including pre-kindergarten (PK), kindergarten (K) and special education beyond grade 12 (SP)
• Percent of students by race and gender
• Number and percent of students in student groups: First Language Not English, English Learners, Students with Disabilities, High Needs, Low Income, and Economically Disadvantaged

Economically Disadvantaged was used 2015-2021. Low Income was used prior to 2015, and a different version of Low Income has been used since 2022. Please see the DESE Researcher's Guide for more information.

This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site:
Enrollment by Grade
Enrollment by Race/Gender
Enrollment by Selected Population