Summary:
ZIP code 02061 is home to a single public middle school — Norwell Middle School, serving grades 6 through 8 in the town of Norwell, Massachusetts, with 509 students and an 11.5:1 student-teacher ratio in 2024–2025. Because there is only one middle school in this ZIP code, there is no in-town peer comparison to make; instead, this is a profile of that school against its own district, the state, and its recent history.
Norwell Middle School is a strong performer by every measure in this data. In 2025–2026 it ranked 40th out of 478 Massachusetts middle schools — the 92nd percentile, earning 5 stars — up from 60th out of 484 (88th percentile, 4 stars) the year before and slightly better than its 42nd-out-of-493 finish in 2023–2024. The Norwell district as a whole also ranks 31st out of 351 districts, so the school sits inside a high-performing system. Proficiency beat the state in every reported subject and grade: 68.29% in all-grade ELA versus the state's 40.03%, 69.35% in all-grade Math versus 41.11%, 62.73% in all-grade Science versus 40.98%, and 71.43% in 8th-grade Civics versus 39.77%. The smallest margin over the state was +21.40 points (6th-grade ELA); the largest was +36.10 points (7th-grade Math).
Looking at year-over-year change, ELA rose from 65.34% to 68.29% while district and state ELA both slipped; Math dipped slightly, from 70.63% to 69.35%, but less than the district did. Science is the one relative soft spot: all-grade Science trails the district, 62.73% versus 64.09%, though it improved 4.65 points in a year and the 8th-grade Science result edges the district's. 8th-grade Civics posted the biggest jump, up 16.88 points to 71.43%. Two caveats for parents: free/reduced-lunch data is not reported in this extract, so socioeconomic context can't be assessed here, and the $16,680 per-student spending figure is from 2020–2021, making it historical rather than current.
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