Massachusetts offers a variety of pathways and programs to ensure students graduate college and career ready. These include Career Technical Education (CTE) programs, Early College, and Innovation Pathways. For more information about these pathways and programs, visit the Office of College, Career, and Technical Education website.

This dataset contains student enrollment data for all public and charter schools and districts since 2022. It is a wide file with three groups of columns representing the following enrollment indicators:

• Number of students in CTE programs, Early College, and Innovation Pathways by grade, including grades 9-12 and special education beyond grade 12 (SP)
• Percent of students in CTE programs, Early College, and Innovation Pathways by race and gender
• Number and percent of students in CTE programs, Early College, and Innovation Pathways in student groups: First Language Not English, English Learners, Students with Disabilities, High Needs, Low Income, and Economically Disadvantaged

After Dark Chapter 74 enrollment is a subset of Chapter 74 Program enrollment. Also, in 2022, some districts reported enrollment in additional Innovation Pathway sectors. This report includes only the five designated sectors.

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

List of Pathways and Programs

Pathways

• After Dark
• Career Connections (Non-Chapter 74 Programs)
• Career Technical Education (Chapter 74 Programs)
• Early College
• Innovation Career Pathways

• Advanced Manufacturing Technology
• Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing
• Automotive Technology
• Carpentry
• Construction Craft Laborer
• Cosmetology
• Design & Visual Communications
• Electricity
• Exploratory
• Health Assisting
• Heating - Ventilation - Air Conditioning - Refrigeration
• Horticulture
• Information Support Services & Networking
• Metal Fabrication & Joining Technologies
• Plumbing

• Airplane Mechanics and Aircraft Maintenance Technology/Technician
• Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing
• Automotive Technology
• Biotechnology
• Building/Property Maintenance
• Business Technology
• Cabinetmaking
• Carpentry
• Construction Craft Laborer
• Criminal Justice
• Culinary Arts
• Design & Visual Communications
• Drafting
• Early Education and Care
• Engineering Technology
• Environmental Science & Technology
• Exploratory
• Family & Consumer Studies (formerly vocational home economics)
• Fashion Technology
• Graphic Communications
• Health Assisting
• Heating - Ventilation - Air Conditioning - Refrigeration
• Hospitality Management
• Information Support Services & Networking
• Marketing/Finance
• Medical Assisting
• Programming & Web Development
• Radio & Television Broadcasting
• Robotics and Automation Technology

• Advanced Manufacturing Technology
• Agricultural Mechanics
• Animal Science
• Automotive Collision Repair & Refinishing
• Automotive Technology
• Aviation Maintenance Technology
• Biotechnology
• Building/Property Maintenance
• Business Technology
• Cabinetmaking
• Carpentry
• Construction Craft Laborer
• Cosmetology
• Criminal Justice
• Culinary Arts
• Dental Assisting
• Design & Visual Communications
• Diesel Technology
• Drafting
• Early Education and Care
• Electricity
• Electronics
• Engineering Technology
• Environmental Science & Technology
• Exploratory
• Fashion Technology
• Graphic Communications
• Health Assisting
• Heating - Ventilation - Air Conditioning - Refrigeration
• Horticulture
• Hospitality Management
• Information Support Services & Networking
• Marine Service Technology
• Marketing
• Masonry & Tile Setting
• Medical Assisting
• Metal Fabrication & Joining Technologies
• Painting & Design Technologies
• Plumbing
• Programming & Web Development
• Radio & Television Broadcasting
• Robotics and Automation Technology
• Sheet Metalworking
• Stationary Engineering

• Business and Finance
• Environmental and Life Science
• Health Care and Social Assistance
• Information
• Manufacturing

This dataset includes expenditure data reported by school districts, charter schools, and virtual schools starting with fiscal year 2009. It also includes student enrollment, demographic, and performance indicators as well as teacher salary and staffing data.

In addition to showing the overall cost per pupil, this dataset provides detail about how much districts spend in major functional areas such as administration, teaching, and maintenance. For more information about the data and how to interpret it, please visit the School Finance Dashboard.

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 is one of three containing the same data that is also published in the School Finance Dashboard: District Expenditures by Spending Category District Expenditures by Function Code School Expenditures by Spending Category

List of Indicators by Category

Student Enrollment

• In-District FTE Pupils
• Out-of-District FTE Pupils
• Total FTE Pupils

• Student Headcount
• Low-Income % Headcount
• English Learner % Headcount
• Students with Disabilities % Headcount

• Teacher FTE
• Teachers per 100 FTE Students
• Average Teacher Salary

• Instructional Coach FTE
• Instructional Support FTE
• Special Education Instructional Support FTE
• Paraprofessional FTE

• ELA Grades 3-8 % Meets Exceeds
• Math Grades 3-8 % Meets Exceeds
• ELA Grade 10 % Meets Exceeds
• Math Grade 10 % Meets Exceeds

• Administration
• Instructional Leadership
• Teachers
• Other Teaching Services
• Professional Development
• Instructional Materials, Equipment and Technology
• Guidance, Counseling and Testing
• Pupil Services
• Operations and Maintenance
• Insurance, Retirement Programs and Other
• Total In-District Expenditures
• Total Expenditures

This dataset tracks annual distribution of students across grade levels in Reading School District and average distribution per school district in Massachusetts

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 12th grade (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

This dataset contains the same data that is also published on our DESE Profiles site: Enrollment by Grade https://profiles.doe.mass.edu/statereport/enrollmentbyracegender.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Enrollment by Race/Gender Enrollment by Selected Population

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 High School Graduation Rates dataset, or the High School Graduation Rates report on our DESE Profiles site.

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. 

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.

The 2023 cartographic boundary KMLs are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. School Districts are single-purpose administrative units within which local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents. The Census Bureau obtains the boundaries, names, local education agency codes, grade ranges, and school district levels for school districts from state officials for the primary purpose of providing the U.S. Department of Education with estimates of the number of children in poverty within each school district. This information serves as the basis for the Department of Education to determine the annual allocation of Title I funding to states and school districts. The cartographic boundary files include separate files for elementary, secondary and unified school districts. The generalized school district boundaries in this file are based on those in effect for the 2022-2023 school year, i.e., in operation as of January 1, 2023.

This dataset contains the total annual unduplicated enrollment headcount and percentages by race and gender for undergraduate and graduate students at public community colleges and state universities in Massachusetts since 2014.

This dataset is 1 of 2 datasets that is also published in the interactive Annual Enrollment dashboard on the Department of Higher Education Data Center:

Public Postsecondary Annual Enrollment Public Postsecondary Annual Enrollment by Race and Gender

Related datasets: Public Postsecondary Fall Enrollment Public Postsecondary Fall Enrollment by Race and Gender

Notes: - Data appear as reported to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. - Annual enrollment refers to a 12 month enrollment period over one fiscal year (July 1 through June 30). - Figures published by DHE may differ slightly from figures published by other institutions and organizations due to differences in timing of publication, data definitions, and calculation logic. - Data for the University of Massachusetts are not included due to unique reporting requirements. See Fall Enrollment for HEIRS data on UMass enrollment. -The most common measure of enrollment is headcount of enrolled students. Annual headcount enrollment is unduplicated, meaning any individual student is only counted once per institution and fiscal year, even if they are enrolled in multiple terms. Enrollment can also be measured as full-time equivalent (FTE) students, a calculation based on the sum of credits carried by all enrolled students. In a fiscal year, 30 undergraduate credits = 1 undergraduate FTE, and 24 graduate credits = 1 graduate FTE at a state university.

This dataset contains provides data on student mobility since 2008. Mobility is defined as those students transferring into or out of public schools, districts, or the state. Mobility rates are not reported for enrollments of fewer than 6.

Intake rate measures the number of students that enroll in the state, a district, or school after the beginning of the school year. Churn rate measures the number students transferring into or out of a public school or district throughout the course of a school year. Stability rate measures how many students remain in a district or school throughout the school year. For further details and explanations see Information Service's Mobility Rates page.

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: Mobility Rate Report

This dataset shows the percentage of students in each graduation cohort who graduated from Massachusetts public schools with a regular high school diploma within 4 or 5 years, or who did not graduate and were still in school, counted as non-grad completers, attained a GED or high school diploma equivalent, dropped out, or were permanently excluded from the cohort. For more information, please visit the More About the Data section on Profiles.

For more information about graduation rates, including how students are assigned to cohorts and student groups, please see DESE's Frequently Asked Questions About Graduation Rates page.

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

This dataset provides the percentage of attrition by grade from the end of one school year to the beginning of the next for students in Massachusetts public schools since 2010. The information is as of October 1 of the given school year.

A value of zero indicates that there was no attrition in that grade for the year and student group selected. A blank value indicates that either:

• The school or district is new in the year selected
• The school or district has no students enrolled in that grade level in the year selected
• The school or district has no grade in the given year for students from the previous year to advance
• The data is suppressed because the enrollment total is less than 6

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

The 2020 cartographic boundary shapefiles are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. School Districts are single-purpose administrative units within which local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents. The Census Bureau obtains the boundaries, names, local education agency codes, grade ranges, and school district levels for school districts from state officials for the primary purpose of providing the U.S. Department of Education with estimates of the number of children in poverty within each school district. This information serves as the basis for the Department of Education to determine the annual allocation of Title I funding to states and school districts. The cartographic boundary files include separate files for elementary, secondary and unified school districts. The generalized school district boundaries in this file are based on those in effect for the 2019-2020 school year, i.e., in operation as of January 1, 2020.

The 2022 cartographic boundary KMLs are simplified representations of selected geographic areas from the U.S. Census Bureau's Master Address File / Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing (MAF/TIGER) Database (MTDB). These boundary files are specifically designed for small-scale thematic mapping. When possible, generalization is performed with the intent to maintain the hierarchical relationships among geographies and to maintain the alignment of geographies within a file set for a given year. Geographic areas may not align with the same areas from another year. Some geographies are available as nation-based files while others are available only as state-based files. School Districts are single-purpose administrative units within which local officials provide public educational services for the area's residents. The Census Bureau obtains the boundaries, names, local education agency codes, grade ranges, and school district levels for school districts from state officials for the primary purpose of providing the U.S. Department of Education with estimates of the number of children in poverty within each school district. This information serves as the basis for the Department of Education to determine the annual allocation of Title I funding to states and school districts. The cartographic boundary files include separate files for elementary, secondary and unified school districts. The generalized school district boundaries in this file are based on those in effect for the 2021-2022 school year, i.e., in operation as of January 1, 2022.

This dataset tracks annual distribution of students across grade levels in Ipswich School District and average distribution per school district in Massachusetts

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

Total undergraduate Fall enrollment headcount and percentages by race and gender at all public Massachusetts institutions of higher education since 2014.

This dataset is 1 of 2 datasets that is also published in the interactive Fall Enrollment dashboard on the Department of Higher Education Data Center:

Public Postsecondary Fall Enrollment Public Postsecondary Fall Enrollment by Race and Gender

Related datasets: Public Postsecondary Annual Enrollment Public Postsecondary Annual Enrollment by Race and Gender

Notes: - Data appear as reported to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. - Figures published here may vary from those of individual institutions due to differences in calculation methodologies.

This dataset contains the total annual FTE and unduplicated headcount enrollment for undergraduate and graduate students at public community colleges and state universities in Massachusetts since 2014.

This dataset is 1 of 2 datasets that is also published in the interactive Annual Enrollment dashboard on the Department of Higher Education Data Center:

Public Postsecondary Annual Enrollment Public Postsecondary Annual Enrollment by Race and Gender

Related datasets: Public Postsecondary Fall Enrollment Public Postsecondary Fall Enrollment by Race and Gender

Notes: - Data appear as reported to the Massachusetts Department of Higher Education. - Annual enrollment refers to a 12 month enrollment period over one fiscal year (July 1 through June 30). - Figures published by DHE may differ slightly from figures published by other institutions and organizations due to differences in timing of publication, data definitions, and calculation logic. - Data for the University of Massachusetts are not included due to unique reporting requirements. See Fall Enrollment for HEIRS data on UMass enrollment. -The most common measure of enrollment is headcount of enrolled students. Annual headcount enrollment is unduplicated, meaning any individual student is only counted once per institution and fiscal year, even if they are enrolled in multiple terms. Enrollment can also be measured as full-time equivalent (FTE) students, a calculation based on the sum of credits carried by all enrolled students. In a fiscal year, 30 undergraduate credits = 1 undergraduate FTE, and 24 graduate credits = 1 graduate FTE at a state university.

This dataset tracks annual average number of students per public school from 1987 to 2017 for Massachusetts

Historical Dataset of Massachusetts is provided by PublicSchoolReview and contain statistics on metrics:Trends in the Average Number of Students Per Public School,Trends in the Average Number of Teachers Per Public School,Student-Teacher Ratio Trends (1990-2023),Asian Student Percentage Trends,Hispanic Student Percentage Trends,Black Student Percentage Trends,White Student Percentage Trends,Two or More Races Student Percentage Trends,Diversity Score Trends,Free Lunch Eligibility Trends,Reduced-Price Lunch Eligibility Trends,Median Total Revenues Trends,Median Total Expenditures Trends,Average Revenue Per Student Trends,Average Expenditure Per Student Trends,Reading and Language Arts Proficiency Trends,Math Proficiency Trends,Science Proficiency Trends,Graduation Rate Trends

This dataset tracks annual distribution of students across grade levels in West Springfield School District and average distribution per school district in Massachusetts

This dataset tracks annual white student percentage from 1991 to 2023 for Massachusetts