Summary:
ZIP code 01775 contains a single middle school, Hale in Stow, Massachusetts, which serves grades 6 through 8 with 247 students enrolled, or roughly 82 students per grade, as part of the Nashoba district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there are no in-area school-to-school comparisons to make; the meaningful comparisons are against the district and the state.
Hale ranks well above most Massachusetts schools. It placed 68th out of 478 schools in 2025–2026 (86th percentile, 4 stars), after 46th out of 484 (90th percentile, 5 stars) in 2024–2025 and 53rd out of 493 (89th percentile, 4 stars) in 2023–2024. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 59.73% in ELA, 63.96% in math, 63.08% in science, and 60.00% in 8th-grade civics—each roughly 20 to 23 percentage points above the state. Mathematics was the strongest all-grade subject, and the standout grade-level results were 7th-grade math at 69.05% (state 37.48%) and 8th-grade ELA at 68.75% (state 41.70%). The one reported result below the district was 6th-grade ELA at 52.05%, versus the district's 54.87%, though it still exceeded the state's 40.26%.
Scores did fall year over year in every reported all-grade subject: ELA from 69.51% to 59.73%, math from 68.85% to 63.96%, science from 69.32% to 63.08%, and 8th-grade civics from 65.91% to 60.00%. Science is worth watching, since Hale's score dropped while the district's rose, shrinking Hale's district lead. Performance also varies by grade: 8th-grade ELA was 16.70 points higher than 6th-grade ELA, and 7th-grade math was 14.26 points higher than 6th-grade math. Other details: an 11:1 student-teacher ratio, per-student spending of $19,329 in 2020–2021, and a free/reduced-lunch rate that is not reported, so no equity analysis is possible from this record.
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