Peabody Veterans Memorial High
Peabody · MA · Peabody · Public
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Peabody Personalized Remote Education Program → Covenant Christian Academy → Bishop Fenwick High School → Lynnfield High → Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School → Danvers High → New England Academy → Salem High →📋 At a glance
- 📚 26 AP courses offered — Elite
- 🔢 2 calculus classes · 2 physics · 26 chemistry
- 🎓 AP rigor: 80th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: 74th percentile by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 90% (Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Peabody Veterans Memorial High compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor in the top 20% nationally with 26 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyMA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+14 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Peabody Personalized Remote Education Program, Covenant Christian Academy, Bishop Fenwick High School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
80th percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-2174th percentile by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 49% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.
Chronic absenteeism
Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of -2.9%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,333 students:
≈ 181 fewer students by 2029 — a real revenue/relevance risk worth getting ahead of.
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue at risk
At $19,316 per student in district revenue, the 181 students projected to be lost by 2029 represent ≈ $3,496,196/year in funding at risk.
District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.
Nearby high schools — the local competition
The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peabody Personalized Remote Education Program Peabody |
Public | 0.0 | 82 | +57.7% |
| Covenant Christian Academy Peabody |
Private | 1.4 | 343 | +31.9% |
| Bishop Fenwick High School Peabody |
Private | 2.9 | 466 | -19.9% |
| Lynnfield High Lynnfield |
Public | 3.0 | 588 | +4.3% |
| Essex North Shore Agricultural and Technical School Hathorne |
Public | 3.3 | 1,830 | +10.6% |
| Danvers High Danvers |
Public | 3.4 | 775 | -3.0% |
| New England Academy Beverly |
Private | 4.0 | 95 | — |
| Salem High Salem |
Public | 4.2 | 942 | +18.0% |