Summary:
Lunenburg, Massachusetts has a single middle school in this data set — Lunenburg Middle School, serving grades 6 through 8 with 382 students at 1079 Massachusetts Avenue — so parents cannot compare it against another middle school in town, but they can see how it stacks up against its district and the state. Lunenburg as a district ranks 166 out of 351 overall, or the 53rd percentile with 3 stars, though that pool of schools is not directly comparable to the middle-school ranking list.
The school's clearest strength is 8th grade civics, where 53.33% of students were proficient in 2025–26 against 39.77% statewide — a gap of +13.56 percentage points — and 59.13% in 2024–25, which was +19.97 points above the state. Science is also a reliable advantage: 47.12% proficiency at all grades and in 8th grade in 2025–26, compared with 40.98% and 38.93% respectively statewide. English Language Arts also finished above the state at 43.94% versus 40.03%. All told, the school beat the state in 10 of 11 reported test rows in 2025–26. In rank history, it reached the 75th percentile with 4 stars in 2024–25 and was at the 69th percentile with 3 stars in 2025–26 — still within the top third of ranked Massachusetts middle schools.
The main caution is that every reported subject declined year over year. ELA fell 6.87 points, civics 5.80 points, math 1.79 points, and science 0.71 points, with the ELA drop mirroring a similar district-wide decline. Mathematics is more mixed: overall proficiency was 45.11%, above the state by 4.00 points but below the district by 1.93 points, and 8th grade math was the only 2025–26 result below state level at 40.95% versus 41.67%. Other context: the student-teacher ratio is 15.2 to 1, per-student spending was $15,285 in 2020–21, and free/reduced lunch data is unknown in this extract rather than 0%.
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