Summary:
ZIP code 02460 in Newtonville, Massachusetts has just one middle school, F A Day Middle, which serves grades 6–8 and enrolls about 860 students as part of the Newton school district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP, there is no local peer to compare it against, so the most useful benchmarks are the Newton district and Massachusetts state averages.
By those benchmarks, F A Day Middle is a standout. It earned a 5-star rating in each of the last three rank years and placed 30th out of 478 Massachusetts middle schools in 2025–2026 — the 94th percentile, or roughly the top 6%. That is up from 31st of 484 in 2024–2025 and 43rd of 493 in 2023–2024. Its proficiency rates sit 27 to 31 percentage points above the state: 70.26% in English language arts versus 40.03% statewide, 72.17% in math versus 41.11%, and 68.08% in science versus 40.98%. It also exceeds the already-strong Newton district in every all-grade core subject, by 5.07 points in ELA, 3.08 in math, and 1.20 in science.
Eighth grade is the strongest grade level, with 80.23% proficient in math, 77.13% in ELA, 72.37% in civics, and 68.08% in science; 8th-grade math is 38.56 points above the state. Seventh grade is the relative soft spot: ELA is 61.96%, which is 3.34 points below the district but still 22.05 points above the state, while math is 68.36%, 1.29 points below the district and 30.88 points above the state. Science slipped 1.75 points year over year and is now the lowest all-grade core subject. Contextually, the school reports a 10.8 student-to-teacher ratio and $22,203 per-student spending for 2020–2021; free/reduced-lunch data is not available in this data set, so economic background cannot be assessed here.
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