Summary:
The Middleborough district serves the town of Middleborough, Massachusetts with four public schools: two elementary schools (grades 1–5), one middle school (grades 6–8), and one high school (grades 9–12). Together they enroll 2,597 students — 774 at Middleborough High, 688 at John T. Nichols Middle, 590 at Mary K. Goode Elementary School, and 545 at Henry B. Burkland Elementary School. The district is rated at the 28th percentile with 1 star, but that single number hides large differences among the individual schools.
Mary K. Goode Elementary School is the bright spot: the only school with a 3-star rating and the highest current rank, 51st percentile. It leads all four schools in ELA (41.3% proficient), math (39.3%), and science (51.2%), with science more than 10 points above the state. Henry B. Burkland Elementary School serves the same grades but sits at the 28th percentile with 1 star, down from 51st percentile and 3 stars two years earlier; its 2025–2026 scores trail both the district and the state, with 5th grade math at just 18.3%. At the secondary level, John T. Nichols Middle is at the 37th percentile with 2 stars and below district and state in ELA, math, and science, with 6th grade ELA at 19.9%. Middleborough High is the largest school, with the lowest student-teacher ratio (11.3), the highest per-student spending ($15,982 in 2020–2021), and a 90.4% graduation rate, but after a strong 2024–2025 it fell to the 44th percentile with 2 stars and 10th-grade scores below the state in all core subjects.
For parents, the biggest takeaway is that the elementary experience depends heavily on which school a child attends: Goode outperforms Burkland by 10.2 points in ELA, 12.9 in math, and 20.9 in science. Class size does not explain the gap, since Goode actually has the higher student-teacher ratio.
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