Summary:
Burlington, Massachusetts has one middle school — Marshall Simonds Middle — serving grades 6–8 with 848 students as part of the Burlington district, which is a 4-star district ranked 80th of 351 statewide. Because it is the only middle-grade public option in the area, families have a single profile to consider, and it is a consistently strong one: the school has earned 4 stars in each of the past three years, ranking 105th of 478 schools in 2025–26, 101st of 484 in 2024–25, and 106th of 493 in 2023–24, holding steady in the 78th–79th percentile.
In 2025–26, Marshall Simonds scored above the state in every reported assessment. Eighth grade is the standout: Civics at 60.84%, ELA at 58.08%, and Math at 57.25%. Civics is especially notable, running 21.07 points above the state. All-grade ELA is 52.15% (12.12 points above the state, 1.33 above the district) and all-grade Math is 51.71% (10.60 above the state but 4.12 below the district). Grade-level Math scores, however, sit slightly above the district's grade-level scores. Eighth grade ELA and Math each outperform the 6th and 7th grade results by roughly 7–10 points, and all-grade Science is 43.92%, above the state but below the district.
Year over year, Science and Civics improved — Science up 3.26 points to 2.94 above the state, and 8th grade Civics up 4.52 points — while ELA fell 3.34 points and all-grade Math fell 2.82 points, moving Math from 1.23 points above the district to 4.12 points below. Context looks favorable: an 11.6 student-teacher ratio in 2024–25 and $22,206 per-student spending in 2020–21, though that spending figure is dated and the free/reduced-lunch rate is not reported, so socioeconomic context is unknown.
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