Brighton High School
Brighton · MA · Boston · Public · K-12 combined
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- 📚 8 AP courses offered — Elite
- 🎓 AP rigor: 68th percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 31% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 57% (Bottom 11% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Brighton High School compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 68th percentile nationally with 8 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyMA students outperform the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (+14 points).
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Boston Green Academy Horace Mann Charter School, St Joseph Preparatory High School, St Joseph Preparatory 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
68th 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 · 2020-21Bottom 31% 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 11% 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.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
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.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +22.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 667 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $34,392 per student in district revenue, the 1,197 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $41,167,224/year in additional funding.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Green Academy Horace Mann Charter School Brighton |
Public · charter | 0.1 | 272 | -14.7% |
| St Joseph Preparatory High School Boston |
Private | 0.2 | 212 | — |
| St Joseph Preparatory High School Boston |
Private | 0.3 | 210 | -23.1% |
| Mesivta High School Of Greater Boston Brighton |
Private | 0.3 | 52 | +0.0% |
| Lyon High School Brighton |
Public | 0.8 | 95 | -26.4% |
| German International School Boston Boston |
Private | 0.9 | 234 | +5.9% |
| Bay Cove Academy Brookline |
Private | 1.0 | 27 | — |
| Match Charter Public School Boston |
Public · charter | 1.3 | 279 | -9.4% |