Summary:
Pepperell, Massachusetts has two listed schools, both part of the North Middlesex district: Varnum Brook, an elementary school serving grades K–4 with 606 students, and Nissitissit Middle School, serving grades 5–8 with 494 students. Together they enroll 1,100 students, and the list contains no high schools or alternative schools, so this covers the K–8 portion of the area. Notably, the district is ranked 229 of 351, the 35th percentile, with 2 stars, while both individual schools hold 3 stars.
Academically, the two schools stand out in different subjects. Varnum Brook's clearest strength is math: 45.99% proficiency in 2025–2026, above the district's 35.59% and the state's 41.11%, and even higher at 50.98% in 2024–2025. Its ELA was 39.24%, just under the state's 40.03% but above the district's 36.39%. Nissitissit Middle School's strengths are science and upper-grade ELA: science was 43.95% versus the district's 36.57% and the state's 40.98%, while 7th-grade ELA (42.98%) and 8th-grade ELA (47.83%) both topped the state's 39.91% and 41.70%. Its math (35.58%) was essentially tied with the district but below the state's 41.11%, and 8th-grade civics (29.57%) trailed the state's 39.77% by more than 10 points.
Rank trends point in opposite directions: Nissitissit Middle School rose from the 50th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 58th in 2025–2026, while Varnum Brook slipped from the 60th to the 50th. Grade-level math at Nissitissit is uneven — 6th grade (44.17%) beat the state's 42.59%, but 5th grade (31.58%) and 8th grade (33.91%) fell below the state's 39.50% and 41.67%. Nissitissit reports a lower student-teacher ratio (10.5 vs 14.0) and higher per-student spending ($17,368 vs $16,078), though the spending figure is from 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data are blank for both schools, so they should not be read as zero, and any high school analysis would require data outside this list.
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