Summary:
ZIP code 01720 contains exactly one middle school — Raymond J Grey Junior High in Acton, part of the Acton-Boxborough district — serving grades 7–8 with 824 students. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, the meaningful comparisons are between this school and its district and state benchmarks rather than between neighboring schools; no test scores are suppressed or given as ranges here, so all figures below are exact percentages, while the free/reduced-lunch value is blank and therefore unknown.
The school is a consistent high performer. It ranked 12th of 478 Massachusetts middle schools in 2025–2026 (97th percentile, 5 stars), 17th of 484 in 2024–2025, and 15th of 493 in 2023–2024, placing it in the top 2.5–3.5% each year. The district itself ranks 44th of 351 (87th percentile, 4 stars), so the school stands above its own district. In 2025–2026, proficiency reached 80.54 in Science, 76.88 in Mathematics, and 72.72 in English Language Arts — about 33 to 40 points above state figures and roughly 7 to 9 points above district figures. Even the lowest grade-level result, 7th-grade ELA at 69.37, is about 29 points above the state.
Science and 8th-grade Civics improved most, up 7.65 and 10.98 points year over year, while all-grade Mathematics (-3.95) and ELA (-1.81) softened slightly yet remained far above benchmarks. Eighth grade outperforms 7th, especially in Mathematics (82.72 vs. 70.89), a pattern the district shares rather than a school-specific anomaly. Additional context includes a 12.2 student-teacher ratio and $17,820 per-student spending in 2020–2021, with no district or state comparators provided and no poverty data available.
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