Middle Schools in Lynn

Lynn, Massachusetts has three public middle schools serving grades 6–8 — Thurgood Marshall Mid, Breed Middle School, and Pickering Middle — all in the Lynn district, which ranks 332 of 351 statewide at the 5th percentile with 0 stars. Enrollment ranges from 583 at Pickering to 1,310 at Thurgood Marshall, with Breed at 1,265; student-teacher ratios for 2024-25 run from 9.8 at Pickering to 12.8 at Breed, and per-student spending (2020-21) from $14,751 at Breed to $16,533 at Pickering.

Pickering leads the three in current ELA and math — 19.03% All Grades ELA, 16.96% math, 26.57% in 7th grade ELA, and 22.16% in 6th grade math — but it also posted the steepest declines from 2024-25 to 2025-26, with science falling from 26.87% to 12.86% and 8th grade civics from 33.83% to 14.18%. Breed is the science and civics standout (16.67% science, 15.63% civics, both above the district), yet its math is weakest in the group at 9.16% All Grades, with 6th grade math at just 7.53%. Thurgood Marshall shows improvement: its rank moved from 447 of 493 to 426 of 478, ELA rose from 15.25% to 16.83% and math from 11.38% to 13.65%, and its 8th grade ELA (19.29%) is the best among the three.

Even so, all three trail state averages widely: current All Grades ELA, math, and science proficiency runs roughly 9% to 19% against state rates near 40% to 41%, and civics ranges from 14.18% to 15.63% versus the state's 39.77%. Resource differences line up somewhat with results, but Pickering's sharp drop shows class size and spending don't tell the whole story. Free/reduced lunch data is blank here and spending figures are from 2020-21, so they may not reflect current conditions; no scores are marked suppressed or shown as ranges, and year-to-year changes should not be read as causal.