Summary:
Middleborough families have exactly one middle school option: John T. Nichols Middle, a grades 6–8 school at 112 Tiger Drive with 688 students, part of the Middleborough district, which ranks 253 of 351 districts statewide. With no second middle school in the area, there is no local peer school for comparison, so the most useful yardsticks are the district and the state.
On 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, 27.4% of students met expectations in English language arts, 25.24% in mathematics, 36.84% in science, and 35.61% in eighth-grade civics. Science and civics come closest to state results—roughly 4 points behind—while ELA trails the state by about 12.6 points and math by about 15.9 points, the largest core-subject gap. By grade, ELA proficiency rises from 19.9% in sixth grade to 26.32% in seventh and 35.55% in eighth, making eighth grade the strongest ELA year; math sits at 22.05%, 27.63%, and 25.6% across those same grades. Sixth-grade ELA and math are the weakest results relative to the state.
Results have slipped over three reported years. The school's rank fell from 231 of 493 (53rd percentile, 3 stars) in 2023–2024 to 279 of 484 in 2024–2025 and 301 of 478 (37th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026—a 16-percentile-point drop. Year over year, ELA fell 3.48 points, math 4.88 points, and science 2.27 points, while civics improved 2.61 points. The student/teacher ratio was 12.2 in 2024–2025, and per-student spending was $14,999 in 2020–2021. Free/reduced-lunch data is not populated, so economic context could not be assessed. The district as a whole also scores below the state in these subjects, so these patterns are partly district-wide.
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