Summary:
Manchester Essex Regional contains a single middle school, Manchester Essex Regional Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 to 279 students in Manchester, Massachusetts, as part of the Manchester Essex Regional district. Because there is only one middle school in this area, families are not choosing among options — all middle-level students attend this school. The district ranks 61st of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 83rd percentile with 4 stars, and the school has earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported years, placing in the top quartile of the state's middle schools every time.
Test results are strong overall. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 59.4% in ELA (state: 40.03%), 51.15% in math (state: 41.11%), and 44.94% in science (state: 40.98%). ELA in grades 6 and 7 is the standout: 64.89% and 75%, which is 24.63 and 35.09 percentage points above the state. Math beats the state at every grade, led by 7th grade at 56.41% versus 37.48% statewide, and 8th-grade science (44.94%) and civics (46.51%) also top the state. The single school-level score below the state was 8th-grade ELA at 40.22%, just under the state's 41.7%, though still above the district's 38.95%.
Two trends are worth watching. Science and civics fell sharply from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: science across all grades dropped from 62.89% to 44.94%, and 8th-grade civics from 74.19% to 46.51%. The civics decline was districtwide, while the science drop was steeper at the school than in the district. Statewide rank also eased, from 67 of 484 to 114 of 478, still top quartile. On resources, the student-teacher ratio was 9.2 and per-student spending was $19,515 (2020–2021); free/reduced lunch data was not available, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed here.
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