Summary:
ZIP code 02379 contains a single middle school: Howard School in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts, serving grades 4 through 6 with 335 students at 70 Howard Street. It belongs to the West Bridgewater district. Because it is the only middle school in this ZIP code, it defines the entire local middle-level picture, and there are no other middle schools nearby within the same ZIP to compare it against.
Howard School's MCAS Next Generation proficiency results are strongest in science and weakest in English language arts. In 2024–2025, science proficiency was 46.32%, above the district (39.02%) and the state (41.51%); in 2025–2026, science remained above the district (36.89% vs. 32.76%) but fell below the state (40.98%). ELA is the clearest area of concern at 26.4% in 2025–2026, below the district (33.59%) and well below the state (40.03%), with 6th-grade ELA at 23.76%, the lowest single figure in the data set. Math reversed direction, moving from 43.33% in 2024–2025 — above both district and state — to 37.35% in 2025–2026, below both.
Year over year, the school declined in all three subjects, and each decline outpaced the state's: ELA fell 9.58 points, math 5.98 points, and science 9.43 points, while state ELA and science declined only 1.50 and 0.53 points and state math rose slightly. Grade-level results for 2025–2026 place Howard at or slightly above the district in every listed comparison, including 5th-grade math at 38.21%, just 1.29 points below the state's 39.5%. Background metrics are limited: the student-teacher ratio is 17.1 and per-student spending was $13,814 in 2020–2021, but free/reduced lunch data is not reported.
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