Summary:
ZIP code 02176 is home to a single middle school: Melrose Middle, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls 886 students as part of the Melrose district. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there is no local peer to compare it against, so the more meaningful comparisons are with its district and the state. In 2025–2026 it ranked 92nd of 478 Massachusetts middle schools — the 81st percentile — and earned 4 stars. Its district, Melrose, ranks 29th of 351 districts statewide (92nd percentile, 5 stars).
The school outperforms the state in every reported subject and year. Civics is the standout: 8th-grade civics proficiency was 64.89% in 2025–2026, 25.12 percentage points above the state and up 4.68 points from the prior year. ELA all-grades reached 57.50% (17.47 points above the state), with grade-level results of 54.02% in 6th, 59.69% in 7th, and 58.72% in 8th. Math all-grades was 51.38% (10.27 points above the state) and science all-grades 49.47% (8.49 points above the state). The relative weak spot is 8th-grade math at 45.39%, only 3.72 points above the state and 0.75 points above the district — the lowest reported score for 2025–2026. Note that in the all-grade rows the school trails the district in ELA, math, and science, but in every grade-specific row it is above the district.
Performance looks sustained rather than a one-year spike: the school ranked 88th of 493, 95th of 484, and 92nd of 478 over three years, holding 4 stars each time with percentiles of 82, 80, and 81. Resource context is limited — the student-teacher ratio was 13.2 in 2024–2025 and per-student spending was $13,313 in 2020–2021 — so these figures are background rather than clear strengths or weaknesses. The free/reduced-lunch figure is blank and should be treated as unknown, not zero.
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