Summary:
ZIP code 01905, located in Lynn, Massachusetts, contains exactly one middle school: Breed Middle School, which serves grades 6–8 with 1,265 students as part of the Lynn district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP, there are no local peers to compare it against — everything below describes this single school and how it stacks up against its district and the state.
Breed's overall standing is low. It ranks 433rd of 478 Massachusetts middle schools in 2025–2026, in the 9th percentile, with 0 stars, while the Lynn district ranks 332nd of 351, in the 5th percentile. Test proficiency trails the state in every subject reported: all-grade math is 9.16% proficient, 4.86 points below the district and 31.95 points below the state, and 6th grade math, at 7.53%, is the lowest figure in the data. All-grade ELA is 15.74%, only 0.56 points below the district but 24.29 points below the state. Relative bright spots include 8th grade science at 16.67%, which is 3.39 points above the district and the largest school-versus-district gap; 8th grade civics at 15.63%, up 1.37 points on the district; and 8th grade ELA at 17.80%, up 2.02 points. Seventh grade ELA, at 19.27%, is the school's strongest ELA grade level.
Year over year, science rose from 14.95% to 16.67% and civics from 13.00% to 15.63%, even as the district declined in both, moving Breed from below to above district averages in those subjects. ELA and math slipped slightly, from 16.56% to 15.74% and from 9.77% to 9.16%. Its numerical rank improved from 444 to 433, but the star rating fell from 1 to 0. Other context: a 12.8:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and $14,751 per-student spending in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data is not available, so economic context is unknown, and no within-ZIP comparison is possible.
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