Summary:
ZIP code 02601 covers Hyannis, on Cape Cod in Barnstable County, and contains just one school at the middle level — Barnstable Intermediate School, a large grades 5–7 campus of 642 students (roughly 214 per grade) in the Barnstable district. Because it is the only middle school in the ZIP, there is no local peer to compare it against, so the picture below is a profile of that single school.
On the 2025-2026 MCAS Next Generation tests, 24.1% of students were proficient in English language arts and 24.01% in math, against statewide rates of 40.03% and 41.11% — roughly 16 to 17 points below the state and about 58–60% of the state rate. The school has ranked between the 24th and 30th percentile of ranked Massachusetts schools across three years of history and held a 1-star rating in each of the last two years. Results improved modestly in ELA (+2.1 points) but were flat-to-slightly-down in math (−0.5 points). Grade-level results are the closest thing to good news: grade 6 and grade 7 ELA and math nearly match the district's own grade-level figures, and only the all-grades rollup trails the district (by about 2.8 points in ELA and 2.6 in math). Grade 6 math is the weakest relative result (−19.7 points vs. state) and grade 7 math the strongest (−12.3), though the state bar is lower in grade 7.
Resources look generous on paper: a 10.1-to-1 student–teacher ratio and $18,730 in per-student spending, though that spending figure is from 2020-2021 — five years older than the test scores — so it should be read as a directional signal, not a year-matched calculation. Two gaps limit what parents can conclude: the free/reduced-lunch field is not reported in this record, so the school's poverty context is unknown, and no grade-5 ELA or math results appear, even though grade 5 is part of the school.
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