Depending on your home address, Forest Grove Middle School students can automatically move on to attend either Burncoat High School or Doherty Memorial High School. Please type your home address into our website's Street Lists to determine the high school that corresponds with your address.

In 2025-26, the district will begin a process to analyze school assignment boundary zones.

You may also seek a different high school based on admissions criteria outlined below.

In the spring of your 8th grade year, guidance counselors from Burncoat High and Doherty High will provide you the opportunity to learn about which classes you'd like to take your freshman (9th grade) year. 

Your guidance counselor will help make sure that you are able to take courses that you enjoy, while also making sure that you are meeting your graduation requirements.   

Students have the option of applying to Worcester Technical High School, which has 23 Chapter 74 career technical education (CTE) programs, or at South, North, and Doherty high schools, which each have a smaller number of programs. Read below for more information.

View more information on Specialized Programs, including Hanover Insurance Academy for the Arts at Burncoat High, the Burncoat High Arts Magnet Program, Advanced Science Academy at Doherty High, and Goddard Scholars Academy at Sullivan Middle and South High.

Career Vocational Technical Education (Chapter 74) is a program of studies in which students learn skills in high school that prepare them to work in a particular career field after they graduate.

Worcester Public Schools offers a wide variety of Chapter 74 programs, which includes early childhood education, diesel technology, culinary arts, health care, business technology, and engineering technology among many others.

Students have the option of applying to Worcester Technical High School, which has 23 programs, or at South, North, and Doherty high schools, which each have a smaller number of programs.

Students will earn industry-recognized credentials. Depending on the career major, some students begin working in these fields right after high school graduation while others pursue colleges and universities.

Students are selected for Chapter 74 Career Vocational Technical Education programs through a tiered randomized lottery admissions process. Worcester Technical High School offers 23 Chapter 74 programs, while Doherty, North, and South high schools offer a smaller number.

View the admissions timeline for students who will be ninth-graders in 2026-27.

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