Summary:
ZIP code 02170 in Quincy, Massachusetts contains exactly one middle school in this data set — Central Middle, serving grades 6–8 with 671 students — so parents here have a single public middle school option, and it compares very well against the wider district and state. Central Middle's student-teacher ratio is 15.8 in 2024–2025, and per-pupil spending was $15,397 in 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data is not reported for this school, so that information is unknown rather than zero.
Central Middle stands out as a high performer. It has ranked in the top 12–13% of Massachusetts middle schools for three straight years: 60th out of 478 (87th percentile) in 2025–2026, 59th out of 484 (88th) in 2024–2025, and 56th out of 493 (89th) in 2023–2024, earning 4 stars each year. Its district, Quincy, ranks 183rd out of 351 at the 48th percentile with 2 stars, making the school a clear bright spot. In 2025–2026 MCAS Next Generation results, it scored above both district and state averages in every reported subject and grade, including ELA, mathematics, science, and 8th grade civics. The strongest result is 7th grade ELA at 73.06% proficient, 33.15 points above the state, while mathematics is consistent across grades 6, 7, and 8 at 64.29 to 65.82.
Year over year, mathematics improved from 60.97 to 65.10 all-grades proficiency, while ELA (67.97 to 64.79), science (62.44 to 59.82), and 8th grade civics (66.34 to 62.05) dipped slightly — all still far above state averages. The rank trend is stable but slightly softer, moving from the 89th to the 87th percentile over three years. Two caveats: free/reduced lunch is not reported, and spending data is from 2020–2021, so equity and current resource levels cannot be assessed from this data.
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