Summary:
Subscribe to the Bridgewater-Raynham area's two middle schools: Edward J. O'Donoghue Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 in Bridgewater with 828 students, and Raynham Middle School, which serves grades 5–8 in Raynham with 710 students. Together they enroll roughly 1,538 middle-schoolers in the Bridgewater-Raynham district, which is ranked 222 of 351 districts (37th percentile, 2 stars). One structural note matters for comparisons: Raynham includes 5th grade, which O'Donoghue does not serve, so all-grade figures are not perfectly apples-to-apples.
Neither school is a statewide standout. Both are 2-star schools in 2025–26 — O'Donoghue at 250 of 478 (48th percentile) and Raynham at 255 of 478 (47th percentile) — and both trail the state in all-grade ELA, math, and science. O'Donoghue has the stronger all-grade showing in ELA (31.86% vs 28.48%) and math (36.39% vs 32.92%), and its 6th-grade math result of 47.17% is a clear bright spot, above both district and state. Raynham answers with 7th-grade math (42.69%), 8th-grade ELA (37.80%), 8th-grade math (38.85%), and 8th-grade civics (37.75%), each above district averages, plus a slight edge in all-grade science (31.17%).
Both schools have lost ground recently, dropping from 3 stars to 2 stars and falling in the rankings since 2023–24; O'Donoghue's slide was steeper, shrinking its rank advantage over Raynham from 38 spots to 5. Grade-level scores swing widely inside each school, pointing to cohort or grade-specific effects rather than a school-wide pattern. Raynham spends more per student ($13,762 vs $12,561) with a lower student-teacher ratio (15.8 vs 16.5), but those spending figures are from 2020–21 and free/reduced-lunch data are unknown for both, so resource comparisons should be read with caution.
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