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Rochester, Massachusetts - 1 schools
An equity score of 57/100 ranks Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical #26 of 362 districts in Massachusetts (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $24,602 per pupil, Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical ranks #97 of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending (Massachusetts districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
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$24,602
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical operates 1 public schools serving 561 students, placing it among the smallest districts in Massachusetts. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 high schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in Plymouth County.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $24,602 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the upper half of 396 Massachusetts districts by per-pupil spending. See how Massachusetts compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 59.3% local, 35.2% state, and 5.5% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 57/100, ranked #26 of 362 in Massachusetts against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 1 of 1 schools offering Advanced Placement (5 AP courses district-wide), a 110.8:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 20.0% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 89.6% White, 3.6% Hispanic or Latino, 1.1% African American across the district's schools.
Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical accounts for 98.8% of all Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical a distant remainder — means Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical student-counselor ratio is 111:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical chronic absenteeism rate is 20.0% — near the typical range (US average ~28) — aligned with the national post-pandemic baseline of roughly 28% chronic absenteeism
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Variation between sub-units within Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical is typically wider than the Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical-aggregate figure suggests.
Comparisons are relative to Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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