Summary:
ZIP code 02481 is served by a single middle school: Wellesley Middle, a grades 6–8 school in Wellesley, Massachusetts, with 919 students in 2025–2026. It belongs to the Wellesley district, which ranks 5th of 351 districts statewide with a 99th percentile rating and 5 stars. Because Wellesley Middle is the only middle school in this ZIP code, the most useful comparisons are against district and state averages and across school years.
Wellesley Middle holds a 5-star rating in every year on record and improved its state rank among middle schools from 11th of 493 in 2023–2024 and 12th of 484 in 2024–2025 to 7th of 478 in 2025–2026, placing it in roughly the top 1.5% statewide, with percentile ranks of 98, 98, and 99. In 2025–2026, all-grade proficiency was about double the state average: ELA at 75.42% versus 40.03%, mathematics at 80.95% versus 41.11%, and science at 78.62% versus 40.98% — gaps of roughly 35–40 percentage points. Eighth-grade ELA was the strongest grade-level ELA result at 81.37%, and 6th-grade math led grade-level math at 82.93%. Seventh grade posted the lowest grade-level scores in ELA (72.11%) and math (78.50%), but still far above state averages.
Year over year, math rose 5.50 points, science 7.49 points, and civics 5.81 points, while ELA dipped slightly by 1.61 points yet remained very high. Science also moved from below the district average in 2024–2025 to above it in 2025–2026, and all-grade ELA sits just 0.28 points below the district. Context: the student-teacher ratio is 8.9 and per-student spending was $23,154 in 2020–2021, though the free/reduced lunch figure is blank/unknown, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed here.
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