Summary:
ZIP code 01606 contains exactly one middle school: Burncoat Middle School, part of Worcester Public Schools in Worcester, Massachusetts. It serves grades 7 and 8 with 720 students, and its 2024–2025 student-teacher ratio is 13.5, implying roughly 53 teachers. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against; the meaningful benchmarks are the Worcester district and the Massachusetts state averages.
Burncoat's clearest pattern is that it performs above the Worcester district average in every reported MCAS subject, grade, and year, yet below the Massachusetts average in every one of those same comparisons. In 2025–2026, 8th-grade math is its strongest result at 30.24% proficient and its largest district advantage at +8.46 points, followed by 8th-grade science at 28.57% (+7.56 points over Worcester) and all-grade science (+4.60 points). Its lowest reported result is 7th-grade math at 23.26%. Against the state, gaps run from about 10 points in 8th-grade science to just over 15 points in 7th-grade ELA and 8th-grade civics.
Year over year, science improved by 3.49 points, reaching 28.57%, while ELA (29.71% to 25.68%), math (30.83% to 27.01%), and civics (27.08% to 24.62%) all declined; the math advantage over Worcester narrowed from +7.24 to +2.76 points. Burncoat holds 2 stars and ranked in the 32nd percentile in 2025–2026, down from the 40th percentile in 2024–2025, though still above Worcester's overall 13th percentile and 1 star. Free/reduced-lunch information is blank, and per-student spending of $17,692 comes from 2020–2021, so it is historical context rather than a current measure.
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