Summary:
ZIP code 01906 in Massachusetts has exactly one middle school, Saugus Middle School, serving grades 6–8 with 616 students in the Saugus district, so there are no other local middle schools to compare against within the ZIP code.
For 2025–2026, Saugus Middle School ranks 298 of 478 schools, at the 38th percentile with 2 stars, up from the 29th percentile and 1 star in 2023–2024; the Saugus district is ranked 271 of 351, at the 23rd percentile with 1 star. On MCAS, the school trails Massachusetts in all-grade ELA by 16.07 points (23.96% vs. 40.03%), in math by 8.75 points (32.36% vs. 41.11%), and in science by 4.73 points (36.25% vs. 40.98%). ELA is the weakest area: 7th grade ELA is 19.70% proficient, 20.21 points below the state, and even 8th grade ELA, the school’s best ELA grade, is 28.40%, still 13.30 points below the state. Math is uneven: 7th grade math is 17.86% and 6th grade math is 26.97%, but 8th grade math is the standout at 53.98% proficient, above the district’s 52.20% and the state’s 41.67%.
Science showed the biggest one-year improvement, rising from 27.27% in 2024–2025 to 36.25% in 2025–2026, a gain of 8.98 points, while the state moved slightly down from 41.51% to 40.98%; the school narrowed its science gap to the state from −14.24 points to −4.73 points. Civics slipped slightly from 31.03% to 30.32%. Other available data include a 13.6 student/teacher ratio in 2024–2025 and $17,864 per-student spending in 2020–2021; free/reduced lunch data is not reported for 2024–2025, so equity conclusions cannot be drawn. Overall, this is the only middle school in 01906: it is improving in rank and has a strong 8th grade math result, but ELA remains the clearest concern.
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