Summary:
Hopkinton is served by one public middle school, Hopkinton Middle School, which educates 996 students in grades 6–8 at 88 Hayden Rowe Street. The Hopkinton district ranks #3 of 351 in Massachusetts — the 99th percentile — with 5 stars, and the school itself has earned 5 stars in each of the last three listed years.
Performance on the MCAS Next Generation tests is far above state averages in every reported subject and grade for 2025–2026. Mathematics is the strongest core subject: All Grades reached 79.51% proficient, with 8th grade at 81.79% and 7th grade at 79.66% — that 7th-grade figure is 42.18 percentage points above the state's 37.48%. Eighth-grade Civics stands out at 77.96% versus 39.77% statewide, nearly double the state rate. English Language Arts is the relatively lowest subject within the school, but ELA All Grades still posted 71.68% against a state rate of 40.03%, and the lowest single ELA grade (6th, at 69.89%) was still about 29.6 points above the state. Science All Grades came in at 73.16%, the one all-grade measure where the school trails the district, which reported 76.55%.
Rankings have eased slightly: the school went from #6 of 493 in 2023–2024 to #7 of 484 in 2024–2025 to #14 of 478 in 2025–2026, still roughly the top 3% of middle schools statewide. Scores also softened modestly year over year — ELA down 4.50 points, Mathematics down 2.15, and Civics down 1.24 — while Science edged up 0.52. The school has a 14.1:1 student-teacher ratio and spent $15,272 per student in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data was not reported in this extract, so socioeconomic context is unknown.
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