Summary:
Maynard, Massachusetts has just one public middle school in this data set: Fowler School, located at 3 Tiger Drive, serving grades 4 through 8 with 451 students. It belongs to the Maynard district, which ranks 160th of 351 districts statewide, at the 54th percentile with 3 stars. Because Fowler is the only middle school in the city, families have no in-city alternative to compare against; the school is best judged against state averages and its own recent history.
Fowler's clearest strength is its upper grades. In 2025–2026, 8th grade exceeded the state in every subject tested: ELA by 2.51 points, math by 2.42 points, science by 9.49 points, and civics by 4.44 points. A year earlier the school was above the state in ELA, science, and 8th-grade civics, with science 9.60 points above and civics 22.64 points above. Its latest rank is 192nd of 478 middle schools, at the 60th percentile with 3 stars, still above the median.
Fifth grade is the largest area of concern: math proficiency was 20.69 versus 39.50 statewide, a gap of 18.81 points; science was 28.74 versus 43.07; and ELA trailed the state by 7.12 points. Sixth-grade ELA, at 29.21, was 11.05 points below state. All-grade math (35.25) and ELA (36.61) remain below state, and scores dropped noticeably from 2024–2025 in science, civics, and ELA. Rank percentile has slipped from 73 to 69 to 60, with stars falling from 4 to 3. The student–teacher ratio is 10.8, and per-student spending was $18,906 in 2020–2021. Free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable, and because grade cohorts change each year, single-year swings should be read with caution.
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