Best Middle Schools in Zip Code 01902

The 01902 ZIP code in Lynn, Massachusetts contains one middle school in this dataset, Thurgood Marshall Mid, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 1,310 students as part of the Lynn district. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there are no other local schools to compare it against, so the most useful comparison is with its own district and with Massachusetts as a whole. The data includes SchoolDigger rankings for 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26, MCAS Next Generation proficiency results for 2024–25 and 2025–26, a student-teacher ratio of 12.3 for 2024–25, and per-student spending of $15,344 from 2020–21. Free and reduced lunch data is blank, so the school's socioeconomic context is unknown and should not be treated as zero.

In 2025–26, proficiency rates at Thurgood Marshall Mid were well below state averages in every reported subject: ELA at 16.83% versus 40.03% statewide, Mathematics at 13.65% versus 41.11%, Science at 12.50% versus 40.98%, and 8th grade Civics at 15.22% versus 39.77%. The largest gap was in Science, 28.48 percentage points below the state, and the smallest was in ELA, 23.20 points below. Compared with the Lynn district, the school was slightly above in ELA (+0.53 points) and Civics (+0.96 points) but slightly below in Mathematics (−0.37 points) and more clearly below in Science (−2.85 points). Grade 8 ELA was the strongest result at 19.29%, while grade 8 Mathematics was the lowest at 12.24%.

From 2024–25 to 2025–26, the school improved in three of four reported subjects: ELA rose 1.58 points, Mathematics 2.27 points, and Civics 2.64 points, while Science was essentially flat at −0.04 points. This stands out because the Lynn district declined in all four areas over the same period, suggesting the school may be gaining ground relative to its district even as absolute performance remains low. Its state ranking also moved from 447th of 493 in 2023–24 to 426th of 478 in 2025–26, with its percentile rising from 9 to 11 and its star rating from 0 to 1. Still, the school remains in the bottom 11% of ranked Massachusetts middle schools, and the Lynn district itself ranks 332nd of 351 at the 5th percentile with 0 stars.