Summary:
Northborough has a single middle school in this data set: Robert E. Melican Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 545 students as part of the Northborough district. Because there is only one middle school here, there are no side-by-side comparisons within the town; the most useful benchmarks are the district averages, Massachusetts state averages, and the school's own results over time.
The school is a 4-star school in each of the last three rank-history years. Its 2025-2026 rank is 117 out of 478, placing it at the 76th percentile and keeping it in the top quartile. The district is ranked 86 out of 351, also 4 stars at the 75th percentile. The standout subjects are Civics 8 at 62.58% proficient—22.81 percentage points above the state—and Science at 60.61%, 19.63 points above the state; both also beat the district average. Grade 8 is the strongest grade level, with ELA, math, science, and civics all above district and state. Grade 7 ELA is the clearest weak spot at 39.11%, the only reported school result below the state average (39.91%), though it sits just above the district's 39.01%.
Year over year, ELA declined from 51.05% to 44.94%, a 6.11-point drop, while the district fell less sharply, widening the school's gap below the district to -3.31 points. Math was essentially flat, from 52.85% to 52.35%, still 11.24 points above the state but 2.30 points below the district. Science improved from 58.01% to 60.61% while the district declined from 62.04% to 55.83%, flipping the school from below to above the district. Civics rose from 55.25% to 62.58%. Rank percentile has drifted from 80 to 79 to 76. Free/reduced lunch is not reported, so socioeconomic context cannot be analyzed; per-student spending of $19,155 is from 2020-2021, and the student-teacher ratio of 10.7 is from 2024-2025.
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