Summary:
ZIP code 02066 in Scituate, MA has exactly one middle school: Gates Middle School, a grades 6–8 school with 639 students in the Scituate district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, there are no local peer schools to compare it with, so the useful benchmarks are the district and Massachusetts state averages.
Gates Middle School is a high-performing, 4-star school. Its state rank was 80th of 478 schools (83rd percentile) in 2025–2026, after 70th of 484 (86th percentile) in 2024–2025 and 69th of 493 (86th percentile) in 2023–2024. The Scituate district is also strong: ranked 56 of 351, 84th percentile, 4 stars. In 2025–2026, Gates scored above the state in every reported MCAS subject and grade. Standouts include 8th grade Mathematics at 66.51% proficient (+24.84 points vs. state), 8th grade Science at 62.56% (+23.63), All Grades Science at 62.56% (+21.58), and 8th grade English Language Arts at 57.21% (+15.51). The student-teacher ratio is 10.1, and per-student spending is $17,457 from 2020–2021, which is older data; free/reduced lunch is not reported.
Parents should know that the school is strong overall but has areas to watch. ELA fell from 61.07 to 56.30 and Civics fell from 58.10 to 52.11, with both moving slightly below district averages while remaining above the state. Mathematics was stable overall (59.17 to 58.98), but grade results vary: 6th grade Math is 53.74, 7th grade is 57.08, and 8th grade is 66.51. Science is a relative strength: the school’s 62.56% was 2.32 points above the district in 2025–2026, after being 1.77 points below it in 2024–2025. The rank slip from 69th to 80th is modest, and it remains in the top roughly 17% of ranked Massachusetts schools. Bottom line: a 4-star, top-quintile school with excellent Math and Science results and ELA/Civics as monitoring areas.
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