Elementary Schools in Middleton

Middleton has two elementary schools serving different grade spans: Howe-Manning, which serves grades 3–6 with 461 students, and Fuller Meadow, which serves grades K–2 with 269 students. Together they enroll 730 students, with Howe-Manning taking about 63% of that total. Both schools belong to the Middleton district, which is rated 102 of 351 statewide, at the 71st percentile with 4 stars.

Howe-Manning is the academic standout and the only school here with MCAS results, since Fuller Meadow serves K–2. Its strongest subject is science: 64.71% proficient in 2025–2026 versus 40.98% statewide, and 70.65% the prior year versus 41.51%. Because it serves grades 3–6, that science figure is effectively the 5th-grade result. Upper-grade math and ELA are also well above state averages — 6th-grade math at 69.32% is the highest single result in the data, 26.73 points above the state, and 5th-grade ELA is 19.69 points above. The relative weak spot is 4th grade, where ELA was 38.46% and math 42.72%, the only math score slightly under the state average. Howe-Manning has ranked in the 70th–72nd percentile with 4 stars for three straight years, so performance looks stable rather than a one-year spike.

Fuller Meadow cannot be judged academically here, but its notable figures are structural: it is smaller than Howe-Manning and has a lower student-teacher ratio, 9.0 versus 11.7, though the different grade levels make that comparison imperfect. Per-student spending is nearly identical — $19,976 at Howe-Manning versus $19,676 at Fuller Meadow, a $300 gap — and those spending figures are from 2020–2021, older than the other data. Free/reduced lunch information is not reported for either school, so economic context is unavailable. Parents should note that Middleton's district rating likely reflects Howe-Manning's tested results.