Summary:
Plymouth, Massachusetts has two middle schools, both serving grades 6–8 within the Plymouth district: Plymouth Commun Intermediate, the larger school with 920 students, and Plymouth South Middle, with 601 students, for a combined enrollment of 1,521. Both schools have been rated 3 stars in each of the last three school years, which stands out against the district's overall 2-star, 48th-percentile profile.
Neither school dominates the other. Plymouth South Middle owns the single strongest result in the data: 6th-grade ELA at 56.28% proficient, 16.02 points above the state, along with 6th-grade math at 44.02% — the only middle-school math result here that beats the state average. But South's 7th- and 8th-grade ELA drop to 36.23% and 38.66%, below both district and state. Plymouth Commun Intermediate is steadier, with all-grade ELA at 46.63% (above district and state) and ELA across all three grades sitting in the 45–48% range. Commun also leads in all-grade science (28.23% vs. 27.08%) and civics (38.78% vs. 36.13%).
The shared challenge is math and science. All-grade math is 31.20% at Commun and 33.33% at South, against 41.11% statewide; 8th-grade science is 28.23% and 27.08%, roughly 11–12 points below the state's 38.93%. Civics improved at both schools, with South gaining 5.62 points, though Commun stays ahead and trails the state by just 0.99 points. Commun's rank has climbed from 243/493 to 214/478, while South slipped from 204/493 to 222/478. Note that free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for either school, and spending figures date to 2020–2021, when South spent $974 more per student.
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