Summary:
ZIP 01128 has two middle schools, both in the Springfield district and both serving grades 6–8 at 180 Cooley Street in Springfield, MA: Kiley Prep with 298 students and Kiley Academy with 268 students, together enrolling 566 middle schoolers. The district context is low-performing: Springfield ranks 322 of 351 districts, at the 8th percentile with 0 stars. Free/reduced-lunch data is not provided for either school, so it cannot be used to compare socioeconomic context.
Kiley Academy is the standout: 2025–2026 rank percentile 15 vs Kiley Prep’s 4, 1 star vs 0, and higher all-grade proficiency in ELA (24.34% vs 12.92%), math (14.22% vs 5.19%), and 8th-grade civics (9.09% vs 6.10%). Kiley Academy also improved most year over year: ELA +12.50 percentage points, math +6.87 pp, science +5.26 pp. Kiley Prep improved in ELA (+4.43 pp) and science (+2.68 pp), but math slipped 0.49 pp and civics dropped 3.90 pp. Kiley Prep’s only edge is science, and it is slight: 7.23% vs Kiley Academy’s 6.41%. Both remain far below state proficiency around 40%, and science is a shared weakness: both are under 8% proficient, versus the district’s 20.90% and state’s 40.98%.
Grade-level bright spots exist mainly at Kiley Academy: its 8th-grade ELA score of 28.95% is above the district’s 19.02%, and its 6th-grade math score of 20% is above the district’s 13.53%, though both are below state levels. Kiley Prep’s scores are uniformly low; its highest is 13.27% in 7th-grade ELA, and math ranges only from 4.60% to 5.88%. Spending does not track with higher achievement here: Kiley Prep spends $19,912 per student vs Kiley Academy’s $19,280, with similar student-teacher ratios (11.8 vs 11.0), yet Kiley Academy generally outperforms. Overall, Kiley Academy is the stronger choice on current metrics, but both schools are below district and state averages, with math and science standing out as major concerns.
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