Summary:
ZIP code 01970 in Salem, Massachusetts contains exactly one listed middle school: Collins Middle, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 611 students as part of the Salem district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against — the meaningful benchmarks are its own Salem district, Massachusetts state averages, and its prior-year results. The Salem district ranks 288 of 351, at the 18th percentile with 1 star.
Collins Middle shows a mixed profile. In 2025–2026 it outperformed its district in English Language Arts (32.51% vs. 30.36%), Science (30.84% vs. 29.64%), and Civics (26.20% vs. 25.32%), but trailed the district in Mathematics (23.14% vs. 25.46%). Its strongest relative result is 7th grade ELA at 37.21% proficient, only 2.70 points below the state. Its clearest weakness is mathematics, which sits 17.97 points below the state's 41.11%, with 7th grade math lowest at 18.22% — 19.26 points behind the state. Eighth grade ELA is also notably low at 26.96%, 14.74 points below the state.
Trends are encouraging but uneven. Math improved year over year from 20.87% to 23.14% (+2.27 points) and Civics rose from 23.27% to 26.20% (+2.93), while ELA slipped slightly (-0.59) and Science fell (-1.67). The school's rank moved from 381 of 493, 23rd percentile, 1 star in 2023–2024 to 318 of 484, 34th percentile, 2 stars in 2024–2025, then held roughly steady at 316 of 478, 34th percentile, 2 stars in 2025–2026. Context figures include a student-teacher ratio of 12.6 in 2024–2025 and per-student spending of $20,031 in 2020–2021; the free/reduced lunch percentage is unknown in this data, so it cannot be used as economic context.
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