Summary:
Chelsea, Massachusetts has three middle schools serving grades 5–8 — Clark Avenue School, Joseph A. Browne School, and Eugene Wright Science and Technology Academy — all part of the Chelsea district, which is ranked 321st of 351 districts in the state (9th percentile, 0 stars). Together they enroll 1,596 students: Clark Avenue is the largest with 673 students, followed by Browne with 487 and Eugene Wright with 436.
Eugene Wright Science and Technology Academy is the standout of the three. It ranks 387th of 478 schools (19th percentile, 1 star) and is the only one holding a star in each of the last three years. It leads in English language arts (26.26%), science (26.13%), and 8th-grade civics (25.00%), and is the only school above the district average in those subjects. Its weakness is math, at 11.68%. Clark Avenue School has the strongest math of the three (15.61%) and the highest 7th-grade math (13.75%), but the lowest ELA (13.84%) and civics (8.97%), plus the largest classes (12.7 students per teacher) and lowest per-student spending ($16,312 in 2020–2021). Joseph A. Browne School has the smallest classes (9.0 students per teacher) and leads in 6th-grade ELA (19.05%) and 8th-grade math (16.54%), but its science dropped sharply from 18.38% to 10.67% year over year.
For parents, the most important pattern is that math is a shared challenge: every school falls below the district's 21.96% and the state's 41.11%, and even the best school result (15.61%) is about 25 points behind the state. Performance also swings a lot by grade — Eugene Wright's 5th-grade ELA is 34.48% while its 6th-grade ELA is 12.24%, and its 6th-grade math is just 5.10%. No school or grade level reaches the state average, and free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable for all three, so economic comparisons cannot be made.
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