Summary:
Newburyport, Massachusetts has exactly one public middle school, Rupert A Nock Middle, which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 470 students at 70 Low Street; it is the only middle school in the Newburyport district, so families here have a single local option rather than a set of schools to compare.
Academically, the school is consistently strong against the state. In 2025–2026, all-grade ELA proficiency was 59.18% (19.15 points above Massachusetts), all-grade math was 52.87% (+11.76), and all-grade science was 50.00% (+9.02). ELA is the standout: 7th grade scored 60.38 (+20.47 vs. state) and 8th grade 61.29 (+19.59). Math is strong in grades 6 and 7 (59.09 and 56.60) but notably weaker in 8th grade at 41.83, only 0.16 points above the state — the clearest soft spot in the data. Eighth-grade civics was 44.08 (+4.31), the lowest-scoring subject. Compared with 2024–2025, ELA fell 4.98 points, science fell 5.21, and civics fell 6.23, while math edged up 0.71 points; scores remain well above state levels.
For context, the school earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported years and ranked 99th of 478 schools (79th percentile) in 2025–2026, after 88th of 484 (82nd percentile) the year before. The district ranks 99th of 351 at the 72nd percentile with 4 stars. The student-teacher ratio is a favorable 9.3, and per-student spending was $18,226 in 2020–2021 — a historical figure. The free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this data.
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