Summary:
ZIP code 01921 (Boxford, Massachusetts) is served by a single middle school — Masconomet Regional Middle School — which educates 553 students in grades 7 and 8 and belongs to the Masconomet district. Because there is only one school here, families should read its results against the district and the state of Massachusetts rather than against local peers.
On the most recent MCAS Next Generation results (2025–2026), the school is above the state proficiency rate in every subject: ELA at 49.35% vs. 40.03% statewide, Mathematics at 43.42% vs. 41.11%, Science at 45.10% vs. 40.98%, and 8th-grade Civics at 42.97% vs. 39.77%. Its strongest showing is the current 7th grade, where ELA reaches 55.40% against 39.91% statewide and Mathematics 48.56% against 37.48% — the two largest margins in the data. The exception is 8th-grade Mathematics at 37.80%, the only measure in the data set that falls below the state's 41.67%. The district itself is rated 4 stars, at the 74th percentile (rank 90 of 351) in Massachusetts.
The caution for parents is that the school's margins are narrowing quickly. Science proficiency dropped from 62.63% to 45.10% year over year, Civics from 53.55% to 42.97%, ELA from 56.11% to 49.35%, and Mathematics from 49.72% to 43.42% — all while the state held roughly steady. The school's ranking has slipped from the 85th percentile (2023–2024) to 81st to 70th, and its star rating from 4 to 3. Its 7th graders outperform its 8th graders by wide margins even though the state shows the opposite pattern, so the next reporting cycle will reveal whether this is a cohort effect or a trend. Context indicators are limited: the student–teacher ratio is 10.7 to 1 and per-student spending was $20,953 in 2020–2021, but the free/reduced-lunch rate is unavailable (suppressed), so the analysis cannot account for economic need.
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