Best Middle Schools in Webster, MA

Webster, Massachusetts has just one public middle school — Webster Middle School at 75 Poland Street, serving grades 5 through 8 with 566 students, or roughly 142 students per grade, as part of the Webster district. Because it is the only middle school in the city, there is no in-city peer to compare it with; the meaningful comparisons are against its own district, the state, and its own past years. Note that the free/reduced-lunch figure is not reported, so the economic context behind these scores is unknown from this data set rather than zero.

Academically, the school trails the state by roughly 25–28 points in every subject. In 2025-2026, all-grades proficiency was 14.57% in English language arts, 14.60% in math, 18.80% in science, and 11.90% in grade-8 civics, against state figures of about 40–41% in each. No subject or grade reaches even 25% proficiency. The strongest result is grade-5 science at 24%, while the weakest is grade-8 ELA at 10.32% — about 31 points below the state. Performance drops as students move up: ELA falls from 19.2% in grade 5 to 10.32% in grade 8, and math from 16.8% to 12.6%, while the state moves in the opposite direction in ELA, so the gap widens. Grade 8 is the weakest year in all four tested subjects. The school's figures sit within about 2 points of the district's in every subject, suggesting the pattern is district-wide. Statewide, the school ranked 436 of 478 (9th percentile, 0 stars), down from 20th percentile and 1 star two years earlier, while the district ranks 342 of 351 (3rd percentile).

Science is the one clear bright spot: the only subject that improved year over year (14.75% to 18.80%, +4.1 points) and the only one where the school clearly beats its district. Math showed the sharpest single-year decline (17.49% to 14.60%), and civics fell 3.4 points, while state scores stayed essentially flat — so those losses are not explained by a statewide dip. With spending data from 2020-2021 and only three years of rankings, this data set shows a consistent, broad gap but cannot explain its causes.