Summary:
Zip code 01945 has three middle-level schools — two in the Marblehead district and one charter — serving grades 4 through 8, with a combined listed enrollment of 1,132. Village School covers grades 4–6 (529 students), Marblehead Veterans Middle School covers grades 7–8 (411 students), and Marblehead Community Charter Public School covers grades 4–8 (192 students). Because the grade spans differ and the charter overlaps the district grades, all-grade comparisons are approximate, and the combined enrollment is not a unique student count.
Marblehead Veterans Middle School is the top performer: ranked 46th of 478 middle schools statewide (90th percentile, 5 stars), up from 72nd of 484 a year earlier. It leads the group in all-grade ELA (65.58%) and math (70.03%), with science at 62.64%. Village School is the science standout at 69.28% all-grade science, above the Marblehead district's 63.13% and the state's 40.98%, though its ELA (53.50%) and math (56.48%) fall below district averages of 57.66% and 59.88%. Marblehead Community Charter Public School trails the two district schools but beats the state in all three subjects (ELA 50.44%, math 50.88%, science 52.22%), ranking 103rd of 478 (78th percentile, 4 stars).
All three schools beat the Massachusetts averages (ELA 40.03%, math 41.11%, science 40.98%). Science rose everywhere: +7.35 points at Village, +14.21 at Veterans, +14.19 at the charter, while ELA was flat or down at all three. The charter's 8th grade is far stronger than its lower grades — both 8th grade ELA and math are 62.79%, versus 41.46% in 7th grade math — a gap easier to see in a school of 192. Veterans has the lowest student-teacher ratio (10.7, versus 10.9 at Village and 12.0 at the charter), though its 2020–2021 per-student spending was the lowest of the three at $18,268, so this is a pattern rather than a proven cause. Free/reduced-lunch data is blank in this extract and should not be read as 0%.
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