Middleborough

Middleborough has five public schools — three elementary schools (one serving only PK–K), one middle school, and one high school — totaling about 2,870 students. The district is ranked 253 of 351 at the 28th percentile with 1 star, and its 2025–26 ELA, math, and science proficiency rates are all below state averages. Memorial Early Childhood Center has no MCAS results or rank history because it serves PK–K, and free/reduced lunch percentages are blank for every school here, so they should be treated as unavailable, not as 0%.

Mary K. Goode Elementary School is the district's bright spot: the only current 3-star school, ranked 444 of 899 at the 51st percentile, and the only tested school above the state in ELA (41.27% vs 40.03%) and science (51.16% vs 40.98%). Henry B. Burkland Elementary School has moved the other way, falling from 3 stars and the 51st percentile in 2023–24 to 1 star and the 28th percentile in 2025–26, with below-average results in every tested subject; its 5th Grade math score of 18.27% is the lowest in the data. John T. Nichols Middle trails both district and state in ELA, math, and science, with its weakest results in 6th grade (ELA 19.90%, math 22.05%). The two tested elementary schools differ by roughly 10 to 21 points per subject.

Middleborough High reports a graduation rate of 90.4%, above the district's 88.8%, and a dropout rate of 6.9% versus 6.7% district-wide. Its scores are volatile: 10th Grade results beat the state in ELA, math, and science in 2024–25, then fell below state in all three in 2025–26 — ELA down about 14 points, math about 12, and science about 18. Memorial Early Childhood Center's only distinguishing metric is the district's highest per-student spending, $18,063 (2020–21 data). Spending and student-teacher ratios do not map neatly onto outcomes: the tested school with the highest student-teacher ratio has the strongest results, while the lowest-ratio school currently trails the state.