Best Middle Schools in Beverly, MA

Beverly, Massachusetts has a single public middle school, Beverly Middle School, serving grades 5–8 at 502 Cabot Street with 1,388 students — a large middle school with a 12.4-to-1 student-teacher ratio (2024–2025) and per-student spending of $14,209 (2020–2021). Because it is the city's only middle school, there is no in-city peer to compare against; the most useful comparisons are with the Beverly district overall and with the state.

Academically, the school sits consistently in the middle-to-upper tier statewide. In 2025–2026 it ranked 164th of 478 Massachusetts middle schools — the 66th percentile, 3 stars — and that standing has held steady for three years. Its clearest strengths are Mathematics and Science: all-grade Mathematics is 48.42% proficient against the state's 41.11%, and all-grade Science is 48.54% against 40.98%. Grade 6 Mathematics is especially strong at 59.38% proficient, 16.79 points above the state. English Language Arts is more mixed: all-grade ELA is 42.18%, above the state's 40.03%, but Grade 7 ELA is a clear weak spot at 34.38%, 5.53 points below the state and the only grade-level subject where the school trails. Grade 8 Civics came in at 40.46%, above both district and state but down 1.37 points from the prior year.

Against its own district, results are mixed. Beverly Middle trails the district in all-grade ELA (42.18% vs 45.38%) and Mathematics (48.42% vs 51.17%), yet exceeds it in Science and Civics, and at every reported grade level in ELA and Mathematics the school is slightly above the district's grade-level average — suggesting the all-grade district figures may cover broader grade spans or different weighting. Year over year, Science gained the most (+4.86 points), followed by Mathematics (+1.83) and ELA (+1.19). The district overall holds a 4-star, 75th-percentile rank, above the school's 3 stars and 66th percentile. Note that the free/reduced lunch figure is blank, so socioeconomic context is unavailable, and the spending figure is from 2020–2021.