Summary:
The Amherst-area ZIP code 01002 has one public middle school, Amherst Regional Middle School, which serves grades 7–8 and enrolls 366 students in the Amherst-Pelham district, making this a single-school profile rather than a comparison among local middle schools.
The school is a strong performer relative to both its district and Massachusetts. In 2025–2026 MCAS results, all-grade English Language Arts proficiency was 53.5% versus 40.03% statewide; math was 45.37% versus 41.11%; science was 54.48% versus 40.98%; and 8th grade civics was 57.72% versus 39.77%. Eighth grade ELA stood out at 58.71% versus 41.70% statewide. Math is still above state but is the relatively weaker area, especially 8th grade math at 43.51% versus 41.67%. The school ranks 104th of 478 Massachusetts middle schools in 2025–2026, 78th percentile, with 4 stars; its district ranks 55th of 351, 84th percentile, also 4 stars.
From 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency declined in math by 6.33 points, science by 4.70 points, and 8th grade civics by 8.95 points, while ELA declined only 0.9 points. The district also declined in math, science, and civics, so the drop may reflect broader cohort or district factors. The school remains a 4-star school and is still in the top ~22% of Massachusetts middle schools. Its rank moved from 91st of 484 in 2024–2025 to 104th of 478 in 2025–2026, still stronger than its 134th of 493 in 2023–2024. Its student-teacher ratio is 9.2, and per-student spending was $25,463 in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data for 2024–2025 is blank, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed here, and because ZIP 01002 has no other middle school, parents should treat this as a detailed single-school snapshot rather than a local comparison.
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