Summary:
The Dudley-Charlton Regional district in Massachusetts has two middle schools serving grades 5 through 8: Charlton Middle School, with 631 students, and Dudley Middle School, with 540 students. Together they enroll 1,171 middle-grade students. The district is rated 257th of 351 in the state — a 27th percentile rating with 1 star — and both schools earned 2 stars in the latest year.
Comparing the two, neither school outperforms the other across the board. Dudley is the stronger school in English language arts and in math at grades 5–7: its all-grade ELA proficiency of 37.12% is above the district's 33.41% and just under three points below the state's 40.03%, and its 5th- and 7th-grade ELA results plus its 5th-grade math result all edge above state averages. Charlton's strengths are science and civics: its all-grade science score of 38.03% beats the district's 35.13%, its 5th-grade science score of 43.75% is the highest single score in this data set, and its 8th-grade civics score of 31.06% is well ahead of Dudley's 24.11%.
Both schools share the same big weakness — math. All-grade math proficiency was 28.87% at Charlton and 31.35% at Dudley, against 41.11% statewide, with the largest gaps in grades 7 and 8. Both schools also declined in science and civics from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026. Dudley has held steady around the 40th–41st percentile for three years, while Charlton peaked at the 50th percentile with 3 stars before falling to the 38th percentile with 2 stars. Spending per student and student-teacher ratios are nearly identical at the two schools, and free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for either.
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