Middle Schools in Medfield

Medfield, Massachusetts has one middle school in this data set: Thomas Blake Middle, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 574 students. Because it is the only middle school listed for the town, there are no local peers to compare it with — the meaningful comparisons are against its own district, Medfield, and against the state. That context is very strong: Medfield ranks 12th of 351 districts in Massachusetts (97th percentile, 5 stars), and Thomas Blake Middle is itself a 5-star school, ranking 24th of 478 middle schools statewide in 2025–2026 — the top 5%.

Academically, the school performs far above the state in every reported subject. In 2025–2026, English Language Arts proficiency was 73.77% versus 40.03% statewide, Mathematics 70.24% versus 41.11%, Science 77.27% versus 40.98%, and Civics 80.79% versus 39.77%. Those are gaps of roughly 29 to 41 percentage points, meaning proficiency rates are about 1.7x to 2.0x the state averages. Results are also consistent across grades: 7th-grade ELA (77.9%) and 7th-grade Math (75.14%) are the strongest, while the lowest reported result, 6th-grade Math at 64.77%, still sits well above the state's 42.59%. Compared with its own district, the school is ahead in ELA (+3.92 points) and Science (+7.38 points), essentially even in Civics, and slightly below in All-Grades Math (70.24% vs. 72.04%), though it edges above the district at each individual grade level in math.

The school is also improving rather than simply holding steady. Its state rank moved from 35th to 33rd to 24th across the three reported years, and proficiency rose in every core subject from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: ELA +3.06 points, Math +3.63, Science +7.27 (70.0% to 77.27%), and Civics +0.69. Standout areas are Civics, Science, and 7th-grade ELA/Math. Two caveats for parents: the student-teacher ratio of 10.8:1 and per-student spending of $19,331 come from older data (2024–2025 and 2020–2021 respectively), and free/reduced lunch information is blank, so socioeconomic context cannot be reviewed.