Summary:
Fitchburg, Massachusetts has two middle schools serving grades 6–8: Arthur M Longsjo Middle School and Memorial Middle School. Both are part of the Fitchburg district, which is ranked 325 of 351 districts statewide, at the 7th percentile, with 0 stars. Enrollment is similar — 614 at Arthur M Longsjo and 601 at Memorial — and neither school reports free/reduced-lunch percentages for 2024–2025, so that data is unknown, not zero.
Memorial is the stronger of the two on most academic measures. Its all-grade ELA proficiency is 29.51% versus 15.99% at Arthur M Longsjo, a 13.52-point gap, and in all-grade Mathematics it leads 23.88% to 12.72%. Civics also favors Memorial, 23.03% to 15.63%. Science is an exact tie at 19.88% for both schools. Memorial is above the district in ELA and Mathematics, while Arthur M Longsjo is below district in those subjects. Both remain below state proficiency in every reported subject. Arthur M Longsjo has the lower student-teacher ratio (11.3 versus 13.0) and slightly higher per-student spending in 2020–2021 ($15,802 versus $15,529), yet lower proficiency in most subjects.
Both schools have declined in the rankings. Memorial fell from the 46th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 29th percentile in 2025–2026, dropping from 2 stars to 1 star, while Arthur M Longsjo fell from the 17th percentile to the 12th and stayed at 1 star. Memorial ranks 337 of 478 schools in 2025–2026; Arthur M Longsjo ranks 423 of 478. Memorial is the stronger option academically, but both schools trail the state and share a downward trend.
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