Summary:
ZIP code 01940 contains exactly one middle school — Lynnfield Middle School — serving grades 5–8 with 698 students as part of the Lynnfield district. Because there is only one middle school in this ZIP, there is no local peer school to compare against; the most useful context comes from how the school performs relative to its district and to Massachusetts as a whole.
Lynnfield Middle School is a high performer. It earned 4 stars in each of the last three reported years and ranked 63rd out of 478 middle schools in 2025–2026, placing it in the 87th percentile — up from 85th in 2024–2025 and 92nd in 2023–2024, a 29-position improvement. The Lynnfield district itself ranks 39th out of 351 with 4 stars. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was 67.58% in mathematics, 62.64% in science, and 60.00% in English language arts, versus roughly 40–41% statewide in each subject. Eighth-grade civics reached 67.04%, about 27 points above the state. Results at the school generally mirror the district, often within about 1.6 percentage points.
Year over year, mathematics rose 6.79 points, science 5.54 points, and eighth-grade civics 4.78 points, while English language arts fell 4.53 points — though it remains far above the state average. Mathematics is now the strongest all-grade subject, ahead of ELA by about 7.58 points. Grade-level results vary: fifth- and eighth-grade mathematics, fifth-grade science, and eighth-grade civics are the relative standouts, while sixth-grade ELA and eighth-grade science are lower but still well above state averages. The student-teacher ratio is 12.6, and per-student spending was $16,398 in 2020–2021. The free/reduced-lunch figure is not reported here, so the socioeconomic profile is unknown.
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