Summary:
Middle Schools in Spencer-E Brookfield serve grades 5–8 and, in this data set, consist of a single school: Knox Trail Middle School, which enrolls 415 students in the Spencer-E Brookfield district.
Because Knox Trail Middle School is the only middle school in the area, there is no other school to compare it against — it defines the entire middle-school picture here. The Spencer-E Brookfield district is ranked 279 of 351 (21st percentile) with 1 star, and the school carries the same 1-star rating, ranking 374 of 478 (22nd percentile) in 2025–2026. That percentile has slipped slightly from 26 in 2023–2024 to 23 in 2024–2025 and 22 in 2025–2026, placing the school in the bottom quartile.
Academically, every reported MCAS proficiency rate is below the state average — roughly half of it. Averaging the four all-grade subjects in 2025–2026, the school sits near 20.4%, the district near 21.9%, and the state near 40.5%. The school generally trails its district in ELA (-2.42 points), math (-3.10), and science (-1.18), but leads in civics (+0.96). Its relative strengths are civics, 7th grade ELA (30.11%, nearly matching the district's 30.21%), and 8th grade, which beats district proficiency in ELA, math, science, and civics — though all remain roughly 18–23 points below state. The clearest concerns are 5th grade, where math is 8.22% and ELA 10.96%, and science, which fell 4.40 points year over year. Note that free/reduced-lunch data is blank and unavailable, spending is from 2020–2021, and the student-teacher ratio is 13.6 with no comparison figures provided.
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