Summary:
The Bristol School District in Connecticut serves two middle schools — Chippens Hill Middle School (545 students) and Northeast Middle School (324 students) — both covering grades 6 through 8, with the district ranking 109th out of 153 Connecticut districts, placing it in the 29th percentile with a 1-star rating.
Northeast Middle School stands out as the strongest school in the district. In 2025-26, it ranked 108th out of 258 Connecticut middle schools (58th percentile), compared to Chippens Hill Middle School's 128th place (50th percentile). Northeast outperforms Chippens Hill in every tested subject and grade, with an overall average proficiency of 50.9% versus 44.5%. The largest gap is in 7th-grade English Language Arts, where Northeast posts 62.4% proficiency versus Chippens Hill's 45.9%. Northeast also has a lower poverty rate, with 50.0% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch compared to 60.18% at Chippens Hill, and it spends slightly less per student ($15,682 versus $16,555) while achieving better results. Chippens Hill's brightest area is 8th grade, where it exceeds state averages in ELA, math, and science.
Both schools share similar challenges. Chronic absenteeism is identical at 19.6%, above the state average of 16.4%. Math proficiency is a district-wide weakness — both schools fall below the state average in 6th- and 7th-grade math, with Chippens Hill's 7th-grade math at just 31.0%, which is 13.1 points below the state. Both schools also declined from the prior year, with Northeast dropping 3.6 points in overall proficiency and Chippens Hill dropping 1.2 points. Encouragingly, 8th grade is the strongest year for both schools, and Northeast's ELA program has all three grade levels above the state average, making it the district's brightest academic area.
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