Rockport

In Rockport, MA, there are two public schools serving 631 students in grades PK–12: Rockport Middle High (6–12) and Rockport Elementary (PK–5). The Rockport district is ranked 193 of 351 in Massachusetts, at the 45th percentile with 2 stars. Free/reduced-lunch data are unavailable.

Compared to each other, both schools show grade-level strengths and weaknesses. Rockport Middle High shines in high-school-level subjects: physics End of Course is 58.54% proficient (state 46.58%), 10th-grade ELA is 52.63% (state 45.48%), 8th-grade civics is 44.23% (state 39.77%), and 8th-grade science is 42.31% (state 38.93%). However, its middle-school math and ELA lag: all-grade math is 30.66% (state 41.11%), and 6th-grade math is 27.50% (state 42.59%), a gap of over 15 points. Rockport Elementary is strong in 3rd and 4th grades: 3rd-grade ELA is 52.50% (state 42.79%), 4th-grade ELA is 43.59% (state 37.43%), 3rd-grade math is 47.50% (state 42.19%), and 4th-grade math is 51.28% (state 43.20%). But its 5th grade is weak: ELA 25.53% (state 38.15%), math 27.08% (state 39.50%), and science 34.04% (state 43.07%). Science also dropped sharply in both schools from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026: Rockport Middle High all-grade science fell from 68.00% to 42.31%, and Rockport Elementary science fell from 59.46% to 34.04%.

Key metrics: student-teacher ratios are low (8.3 at Rockport Middle High, 9.0 at Rockport Elementary), and per-student spending was over $21,000 in 2020–2021 ($21,797 for Rockport Middle High, $22,516 for Rockport Elementary). Rankings show Rockport Middle High slipped from 4 stars (72nd percentile) in 2024–2025 to 3 stars (61st percentile) in 2025–2026, while Rockport Elementary declined from 3 stars (57th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 2 stars (47th percentile) in 2025–2026. Graduation rate at Rockport Middle High is 91.1% (district 91.3%), and dropout rate is 6.7% (district 6.5%). Overall, Rockport has pockets of strong performance—especially high-school physics, 10th-grade ELA, 8th-grade civics/science, and elementary 3rd–4th grade ELA/math—but clear pressure points in middle-school math/ELA and 5th-grade ELA/math/science. The district’s 2-star rating and elementary school’s downward trend suggest these gaps are important to watch.