Middle Schools in Hanover

Hanover, Massachusetts has exactly one middle school, Hanover Middle, which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 826 students in the Hanover district. With only one middle school in the area, there are no local school-to-school comparisons, so the useful benchmarks are the district, the state, and the school's own past performance. Hanover Middle stands out on its own merits: in 2025–26 it ranked 75th of 478 Massachusetts middle schools, placing it in the 84th percentile with 4 stars. That strength has been steady, with 4 stars and percentile rankings between 82 and 86 in each of the last three reported years. The Hanover district itself ranks 60th of 351 statewide at the 83rd percentile with 4 stars.

Academically, Hanover Middle scores above Massachusetts in every reported subject. In 2025–26, all-grade ELA was 56.43% proficient versus 40.03% statewide, Mathematics 55.04% versus 41.11%, Science 57.94% versus 40.98%, and Grade 8 Civics 47.34% versus 39.77%. Its strongest results are Grade 7 Mathematics at 65.53% (versus 37.48% statewide), Grade 8 Science at 62.21% (versus 38.93%), Grade 6 ELA at 61.09% (versus 40.26%), and Grade 7 ELA at 60.59% (versus 39.91%). Grade 5 is the softest area: ELA at 44.88% and Mathematics at 42.72%, still above the state's 38.15% and 39.50%, but by much narrower margins. Mathematics shows the widest spread between grades, from 42.72% in Grade 5 to 65.53% in Grade 7.

Year over year, results are mixed rather than alarming: Science gained 1.99 points and Civics gained 5.50 points, while ELA slipped 0.80 points and Mathematics slipped 1.87 points. School scores track the district within roughly 0.7 points in every subject, which is expected when a district has a single middle school. For context, the student-teacher ratio is 13.2 (2024–25) and per-student spending is $14,134 (2020–21). Free or reduced lunch data is not provided in the record, so it is unknown, and the available data does not support conclusions about what drives these results.