Summary:
ZIP code 01524 has one middle school, Leicester Middle, serving grades 5–8 with 394 students in Leicester, Massachusetts. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP, parents should compare it with the broader Leicester district and Massachusetts averages rather than with another local middle school. Its student–teacher ratio is 12.7 for 2024–2025, and per-student spending was $14,467 in 2020–2021; free/reduced-lunch data was not reported in this extract.
Academically, the clearest bright spot is 8th-grade Civics: Leicester Middle scored 43.4% in 2025–2026, above the district’s 42.99% and the state’s 39.77%, and up from 37.04% the prior year. Upper grades generally outperform lower grades in core subjects. ELA rises from 15.79% in 5th grade to 31.53% in 8th grade, and Math rises from 13.83% to 29.63%. However, the school remains below Massachusetts in ELA, Math, and Science. In 2025–2026, all-grade ELA was 24.47% vs. 40.03% state, Math was 23.14% vs. 41.11% state, and Science was 28.00% vs. 40.98% state.
The weakest areas are 5th-grade Math and ELA, where proficiency is far below the state: 13.83% vs. 39.50% in Math and 15.79% vs. 38.15% in ELA. Science also dropped sharply year over year, from 39.18% to 28.00%, a decline of 11.18 percentage points. School ranking moved from 276 of 493 in 2023–2024 to 296 of 478 in 2025–2026, with percentile falling from 44 to 38 and still 2 stars; the district ranks 260 of 351, 26th percentile, 1 star. Overall, Leicester Middle shows strength in 8th-grade Civics and better upper-grade results, but core ELA, Math, and Science remain substantially below state averages.
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