Summary:
ZIP code 01085 covers Westfield, Massachusetts, where two middle-level schools serve the community: Westfield Intermediate School, which enrolls 729 students in grades 5–6, and Westfield Middle School, which enrolls 671 students in grades 7–8. Both belong to the Westfield district, which is ranked 241 of 351 districts statewide (31st percentile, 2 stars). Because one school covers the upper elementary grades and the other the middle grades, direct comparisons between them need caution — especially in science, which compares grade 5 at one school with grade 8 at the other.
Westfield Intermediate is the stronger of the pair. In 2025–2026 it exceeded district averages in every reported grade and subject. Its science result of 42.51% proficient tops both the district's 34.5% and the state's 40.98% all-grade mark, though it sits just under the state's grade-5 science benchmark of 43.07%. Grade 6 math is also relatively strong at 40.6%, close to the state's 42.59%. Year over year, the school has been stable: math rose 1.27 points while ELA and science dipped only slightly.
Westfield Middle's results are lower. Civics, at 36.88%, is above the district's 35.87% but below the state's 39.77%. Core subjects fall well short of state: ELA 29.61% (10.42 points below), math 33.28% (7.83 points below), and science 26.91% (14.07 points below). Declines were steep — ELA down 6.47 points, science 5.91, civics 6.02 — and its rank slipped from 3 stars/53rd percentile to 2 stars/45th percentile. Resources look similar at both schools: spending of $16,177 versus $16,043 per student in 2020–2021, and student-teacher ratios of 11.2 versus 11.7 in 2024–2025. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported.
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