Summary:
ZIP code 02138, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, contains just one middle school in the available data — Darby Vassall Upper School, which serves grades 6–8 with 298 students as part of the Cambridge district. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, there are no local peers to compare it against, so the most useful comparisons are between this school and its district, the state, and its own results over time. It is a 4-star school that ranked 111th out of 478 middle schools statewide in 2025–2026, placing in the 77th percentile — up from 143rd of 493 two years earlier, with 4 stars maintained each year.
In 2025–2026 MCAS testing, the school outperformed the state in every all-grade subject: English Language Arts (53.14% proficient vs. 40.03% statewide), Mathematics (53.11% vs. 41.11%), Science (43.82% vs. 40.98%), and Civics (48.31% vs. 39.77%). However, it trailed the Cambridge district in all four subjects. The standout result is 7th-grade Mathematics at 60.20% proficient, above the district's 51.97% and the state's 37.48% — the only grade-level result where the school beats its district. The largest local gap is 8th-grade ELA at 50.56%, which is 13.54 points below the district's 64.10% but still 8.86 points above the state's 41.70%. Science has the narrowest margin above the state, at +2.84 points.
Trends are largely encouraging: Science rose 3.82 points year over year and moved from below the state to above it, Civics rose 2.43 points, and Mathematics rose 1.81 points, while ELA slipped 1.00 point as the district improved. The school reports a 7:1 student-teacher ratio and $32,963 per-student spending for 2020–2021, suggesting a resource-intensive environment, though that spending figure is older than the test and rank data. The free/reduced-lunch percentage is blank, so economic-disadvantage context is unknown rather than zero, which limits how fully these results can be interpreted.
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