Summary:
The Whitman-Hanson area has two middle schools in the Whitman-Hanson district in Massachusetts: Whitman Middle, which serves grades 6–8 with 496 students, and Hanson Middle School, which serves grades 5–8 with 442 students, for 938 students combined. Because Hanson includes a fifth grade that Whitman does not, the fairest head-to-head comparisons are grades 6–8. Free/reduced lunch data are blank for both schools, so socioeconomic context is unknown, and per-student spending figures date to 2020–2021.
Hanson Middle School is the standout. It earned 3 stars in each of the last three years and ranked higher than Whitman Middle in all three, at the 52nd, 55th, and 60th percentiles, while Whitman went 42nd, 50th, and 48th percentile (2, 3, then 2 stars). Hanson's clearest strength is science: in 2025–2026 its All Grades science proficiency was 43.00%, above the district's 40.00% and the state's 40.98%, and its 8th grade science was 42.86%, above both. Hanson also posted an exceptional 2024–2025 ELA result of 43.02%, above district and state, though that fell to 34.77% in 2025–2026, a drop of 8.25 percentage points.
Whitman's strengths are more localized. Its 8th grade ELA score of 41.50% was near the state's 41.70% and slightly above the district's 41.35%, and its 7th grade math score of 30.77% topped Hanson's 29.81%. Math is the weak spot for both: in 2025–2026 All Grades math, Whitman scored 30.26% and Hanson 31.97%, versus the state's 41.11%, with grade 6 math especially low (25.15% and 28.57% against the state's 42.59%). Both tied at 37.50% in 8th grade civics, above the district but below the state. Hanson spends more per student ($15,574 vs. $14,298) but has a higher student-teacher ratio (13.2 vs. 12.4).
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