Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 01803

Zip code 01803 contains one public middle school, Marshall Simonds Middle, which serves grades 6–8 in Burlington, MA and enrolls 848 students as part of the Burlington district. Because it is the only middle school in this zip code, there are no other local public middle schools to compare it against; families can instead look at how it performs relative to its district, the state, and its own past results. The available record includes three years of school rankings, MCAS Next Generation scores for 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, enrollment, student-teacher ratio, and per-student spending, while free/reduced lunch information is blank/not available in this record.

Marshall Simonds Middle stands out as a stable, high-performing school. It has earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported years and has ranked between 101st and 106th in Massachusetts, placing it at the 78th–79th percentile—roughly the top quarter of middle schools. In 2025–2026, it ranked 105th of 478 schools; in 2024–2025, 101st of 484; and in 2023–2024, 106th of 493. Its 11.6:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and $22,206 per-student spending in 2020–2021 suggest a relatively favorable staffing and investment environment. The Burlington district itself is rated 80th of 351 districts, at the 77th percentile with 4 stars.

Academically, the school’s strongest results appear in 8th grade. In 2025–2026, 8th grade civics was 60.84% proficient—21.07 percentage points above the state—while 8th grade ELA was 58.08% (16.38 points above the state) and 8th grade math was 57.25% (15.58 points above). At the grade 6–8 level, the school slightly exceeded the district in every reported subject, generally by about 0.85 to 1.61 points. One caveat: at the All Grades level, the school trails the district in math (51.71% vs. 55.83%) and science (43.92% vs. 47.66%), even though its grade-level math and 8th grade science are above the district’s corresponding figures. Science is the relative weak spot but improved from 40.66% in 2024–2025 to 43.92% in 2025–2026, now above the state’s 40.98%. ELA and math all-grade scores declined year over year, from 55.49% to 52.15% and from 54.53% to 51.71%, but both remain well above state averages.