Summary:
ZIP code 02532, which covers Bourne on Cape Cod, has just one middle school serving grades 6 through 8: Bourne Middle School, a 394-student school in the Bourne district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP code, parents cannot compare it with another local middle school; the useful yardsticks are its own district and the state of Massachusetts, plus how it has changed over time.
On the 2025–2026 MCAS, the school scored above the Bourne district average in every reported subject, but below the state average in all of them. English language arts came in at 36.15% proficient versus 40.03% statewide, a gap of 3.88 points and the closest the school comes to the state. Mathematics was 30.75% against 41.11% statewide, and 7th grade math was the weakest single result at 23.21% versus 37.48%. Science was 34.29% versus 40.98%. Eighth grade civics was the clearest weak spot: 23.57% proficient compared with 39.77% statewide, a 16.20-point gap. Eighth grade math, at 38.13%, was the strongest subject relative to the state.
Improvement is real but gradual. Science rose 5.09 percentage points year over year, ELA rose 1.93 points, while math and civics were essentially flat. The school's rank percentile climbed from 36 to 42 to 45 across three years, though it remains below the 50th percentile with a 2-star district rating. Context: the student-teacher ratio is 8.9 to 1 in 2024–2025 and per-student spending was $20,439 in 2020–2021; free/reduced lunch data is not reported, so socioeconomic context cannot be judged from this record. Overall, a small school beating its district but trailing the state, with civics and math as the priorities.
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