Summary:
ZIP code 02346 contains exactly one middle school — John T. Nichols Middle in Middleborough, MA — which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 688 students, roughly 229 per grade, with a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.2 and spending reported at $14,999 per student (2020-2021, the only year provided). Because this is a single-school area, there are no local peers to compare against; the useful benchmarks are the Middleborough district and the state. The school's free/reduced-lunch figure is blank, meaning the economic context of the student body is unknown from this data, not zero.
Academically, the headline numbers trail Massachusetts in every subject: 27.4% proficient in English language arts versus 40.03% statewide, 25.24% in math versus 41.11%, science at 36.84% versus 40.98%, and civics at 35.61% versus 39.77%. Grade-level detail is more textured than that overall picture. Eighth-grade science (36.84%) sits just 2.09 points below the state and eighth-grade ELA (35.55%) is 6.15 points below, while sixth-grade ELA and math lag by more than 20 points each. ELA climbs steadily by grade — 19.9% in 6th, 26.32% in 7th, 35.55% in 8th — whereas math dips and recovers unevenly (22.05%, 27.63%, 25.6%).
Trends are mixed. The school slipped from the 53rd to the 37th percentile over three years and its star rating fell from 3 to 2, and in the most recent year ELA, math, and science all declined while the state held roughly steady or gained in math. Civics is the lone improver, up 2.61 points to 35.61%, essentially matching the district. Notably, Nichols carries 2 stars and a 37th-percentile rank inside a Middleborough district rated 1 star at the 28th percentile. The clearest opportunities are the 6th-grade ELA and math gaps and the 8th-grade math dip; the strongest assets are 8th-grade science and the civics improvement.
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