Summary:
Marlborough has a single public middle school in this data set: 1 LT Charles W. Whitcomb School, located at 25 Union Street, serving grades 6 through 8 with 965 students in the Marlborough district. Because there is only one middle school listed, there is no local peer group to compare against — Whitcomb's results represent the entire middle-school picture for the city.
Whitcomb ranks in the bottom quartile of Massachusetts middle schools, earning 1 star in each of the last three school years. Its percentile rank was 22 in 2025–2026, 21 in 2024–2025, and 22 in 2023–2024, while the Marlborough district ranks 290 out of 351 at the 17th percentile. In 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation results, the school trails the state in every reported subject and grade. All-grade English Language Arts is 24.86% proficient, Mathematics 22.63%, and Science 14.34%, compared with state figures of 40.03%, 41.11%, and 40.98%. At the grade level, Whitcomb sits slightly above the district in all eight reported assessments, including 8th grade Mathematics at 27.44% and 8th grade Civics at 20.00%, yet remains at least 13.63 points below the state in each one.
Year over year, Mathematics improved the most, rising from 18.69% to 22.63% while the district gained 0.89 points and the state 0.37 points. ELA was nearly flat, and both Science and Civics declined. Science is the clearest weakness: it has the lowest proficiency rate, the largest state gap at 26.64 points all-grade, and a year-over-year drop, plus the widest gap below the district. The student-teacher ratio is 9.3 students per teacher, and per-student spending is $17,568 from 2020–2021; free/reduced lunch data was not provided.
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