Middle Schools in Weymouth

Weymouth, Massachusetts has just one middle school — Maria Weston Chapman Middle School, serving grades 6 through 8 — so there is no in-district peer to compare it against; parents can only measure it against the Weymouth district overall and the state.

Chapman is a large school, with 1,187 students and a student–teacher ratio of 11.1 to 1 (2024–2025), which works out to roughly 107 teacher-equivalents. It ranks 233rd of 478 Massachusetts middle schools — 51st percentile, 3 stars — which puts the building above its own district's rating of 2 stars and 47th percentile. English Language Arts is the clear strength: 41.3% proficient, above both the district (40.75%) and the state (40.03%), and the only subject where the school consistently beats the state. Math improved sharply, from 28.97% to 34.84% in a single year, but at 34.84% it still trails the state by 6.27 points. Grade-8 Science (25.67%) and Civics (26.79%) sit roughly 13 points below the state, yet they match the district closely — pointing to a district-wide instructional pattern rather than something specific to this school.

Two patterns are worth watching. First, ELA proficiency rises steadily from grade 6 to grade 8 (39.53% → 41.07% → 43.31%) while Math falls just as steadily (38.95% → 33.06% → 32.45%), so the same students appear to gain in literacy while slipping in numeracy as they move up. Second, the school's rank has improved three years running (245 → 239 → 233), even though ELA declined and Science and Civics slipped — a reminder that a rising rank is a composite and doesn't mean every subject is improving. One limitation: free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so it isn't possible to tell whether any of these gaps are concentrated among particular groups of students.