Summary:
Acushnet, Massachusetts has exactly one middle school — Albert F Ford Middle School — serving grades 5 through 8 with 403 students as part of the Acushnet district, which holds a 3-star rating and ranks 121st of 351 districts (66th percentile). The school also carries a 3-star rating, with a 2025–2026 rank of 237th out of 478 Massachusetts middle schools — the 50th percentile, or right at the state median.
Mathematics is the school's clearest strength. All-grade math proficiency was 42.45%, slightly above the state's 41.11%, and the 5th- and 6th-grade results were the school's best reported figures: 48.11% and 48.94%, versus state rates of 39.50% and 42.59%. In 2024–2025, the school was also above the state in ELA (42.86% vs. 41.53%) and science (44.44% vs. 41.51%). Class sizes are modest, with a student/teacher ratio of 12.9 in 2024–2025, and per-student spending was $15,013 in 2020–2021, the only spending year available. Note that the free/reduced lunch field is blank in this record, so no income context can be drawn from it.
The main concern is grade 8 and the most recent year's results. In 2025–2026, 8th graders trailed the state in every reported subject: ELA 35.00% vs. 41.70%, math 39.00% vs. 41.67%, science 24.00% vs. 38.93%, and civics 24.24% vs. 39.77% — gaps of roughly 15 points in science and civics. Sixth-grade ELA was also low at 24.73% against the state's 40.26%, though the district posted a similar 24.47%, suggesting a district-wide pattern. Year over year, science fell 12.40 points, civics 10.59 points, and ELA 6.65 points, while math slipped only 1.30 points and stayed above the state. The school's rank percentile has drifted from 69th to 56th to 50th over three years — still 3 stars, but now closer to average than above it.
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