Summary:
ZIP code 02019 contains exactly one middle school: Bellingham Memorial School, a grade 4–7 school with 586 students at 130 Blackstone Street in the Bellingham district. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there is no in-town peer comparison to make — the useful benchmarks are the district and the state. The data include rank history from 2023–2024 through 2025–2026, MCAS Next Generation proficiency results for 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, a 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio of 17.1:1, and spending per student of $17,091 from 2020–2021. The free/reduced lunch percentage for 2024–2025 is blank, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed from this data set.
On the numbers, the school is not currently a high performer. Its 2025–2026 rank is 340th of 478 — the 29th percentile with 1 star — down from the 36th percentile and 2 stars in 2024–2025 and the 38th percentile and 2 stars in 2023–2024. In 2025–2026, all three all-grade subjects trail the state: ELA at 25.36% proficient versus 40.03%, Mathematics at 28.73% versus 41.11%, and Science at 28.78% versus 40.98%. Every reported grade-level result in grades 4–7 is also below the state, with the widest gaps in grade 7 ELA (20.59% vs. 39.91%), grade 6 Math (24.14% vs. 42.59%), and grade 5 ELA (19.86% vs. 38.15%).
Two trends stand out for families. Science was a bright spot in 2024–2025 at 43.26% proficient — above both district and state — but fell 14.48 points in 2025–2026; Math dropped 6.73 points over the same period. The clearest strengths are that the school outperforms the Bellingham district in all nine reported grade-level comparisons in 2025–2026, and that grade 4 is closest to state averages, roughly 5.9 points behind in ELA and 4.4 in Math. ELA in grades 5 and 7, grade 6 Math, and the recent Science decline are the areas to watch.
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