Summary:
Danvers, Massachusetts has a single middle school serving grades 6–8: Holten Richmond Middle School, with 745 students and a notably favorable 10-to-1 student–teacher ratio, making it the only middle-grade option in the Danvers district. Because there is just one school here, all comparisons are against the district, the state, and the school's own past performance rather than against a local peer school.
The strongest news is in Civics and Science. Eighth-grade Civics reached 43.32% proficient, about 3.6 points above the state's 39.77% and up roughly 5.4 points from the prior year — the biggest improvement of any subject, moving the school from below the state to above it. All-grades Science came in at 38.71%, well above the district's 32.13% and essentially level with the state. The school also outranks its own district: Holten Richmond sits at the 50th percentile among Massachusetts middle schools (241 of 478), while the district sits at the 37th percentile.
The persistent concern is English Language Arts and Mathematics. Every grade-level figure in both subjects falls below the state — all six of them — with gaps ranging from about 0.9 points in 6th-grade ELA to roughly 14.7 points in 7th-grade ELA, which at 25.20% is the weakest number in the entire data set. Science also slipped about 3.9 points year over year, dropping from above the state to below it. Meanwhile, the school's percentile has drifted from 58 to 51 to 50 over three years, and its star rating fell from 3 to 2. One important gap: the free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported for 2024–2025 — not zero, simply missing — so the economic context behind these results cannot be assessed from this data.
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