Summary:
ZIP code 01604 has one middle school, Worcester East Middle, serving grades 6–8 in the Worcester district in Massachusetts. It enrolls 731 students and has a student-teacher ratio of 14.3. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there are no nearby middle schools to compare it with directly, so the useful comparisons are against the Worcester district and Massachusetts state averages.
Worcester East Middle is rated 1 star and ranked 399 of 478 schools in 2025–2026, in the 17th percentile. Its rank history is similar: 394 of 484 (19th percentile) in 2024–2025 and 420 of 493 (15th percentile) in 2023–2024. On 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, all-grade proficiency is 22.11% in ELA, 13.32% in math, and 19.88% in science, compared with Worcester district averages of 24.98%, 24.25%, and 23.97% and state averages of 40.03%, 41.11%, and 40.98%. Eighth-grade civics is 17.38%, below the district’s 21.02% and the state’s 39.77%.
The school’s strongest ELA result is 8th grade at 25.38%, close to the district’s 25.78% but below the state’s 41.70%. The weakest reported result is 7th grade math at 10.34%, and 6th grade ELA is 15.15%, well below the district’s 29.14% and state’s 40.26%. Science improved from 13.15% in 2024–2025 to 19.88% in 2025–2026, a 6.73-point gain, though it remains below district and state. Civics slipped from 19.14% to 17.38%. The Worcester district itself ranks 304 of 351 districts, in the 13th percentile with 1 star. Per-student spending is $18,124 (2020–2021), and free/reduced-lunch data is not reported, so that context is unknown.
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