Summary:
Raymond J Grey Junior High is the only middle school serving the Acton-Boxborough district in Acton, Massachusetts, enrolling 824 students in grades 7 and 8, while the district as a whole ranks 44th of 351 districts in the state.
By state standards, this is a top-tier school. It ranked 12th of 478 Massachusetts middle schools in 2025–2026 at the 97th percentile with 5 stars, following 17th of 484 in 2024–2025 and 15th of 493 in 2023–2024 — 5 stars in each of the three years, placing it consistently in roughly the top 3–4% of the state. MCAS proficiency runs far above statewide averages: 72.72% in ELA versus 40.03% statewide, 76.88% in mathematics versus 41.11%, and 80.54% in science versus 40.98%. Grade 8 mathematics is the highest reported result at 82.72% proficient, compared with 41.67% statewide. Across every reported subject and grade, proficiency sits 29 to 42 percentage points above the state.
Year over year, science rose 7.65 points and Grade 8 civics climbed 10.98 points to 75.43%, now 35.66 points above the state, while ELA slipped 1.81 points and mathematics 3.95 points — still far above district and state benchmarks. Grade 8 outperforms Grade 7 in both ELA (75.99% vs. 69.37%) and mathematics (82.72% vs. 70.89%). School results sit only 0.62 to 0.92 points above the district's same-grade scores, suggesting the school performs at the district's already very high Grade 7–8 level. Context points include a 12.2 student-teacher ratio and $17,820 per-student spending in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data is unavailable, so no conclusions should be drawn about the student population from it.
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