Summary:
Zip code 02718 has one middle school, Joseph H Martin, located in East Taunton and serving grades 5–7 with 647 students as part of the Taunton district. Because it is the only middle school in the area, it is the sole local option to compare, but its results can still be compared with the district and Massachusetts averages.
Science is the school’s clearest strength: in 2025–2026, 44.27% of students were proficient in Science, above the state’s 40.98% and more than double the Taunton district’s 21.06%. The school’s rank also improved from 350th of 493 in 2023–2024 to 293rd of 478 in 2025–2026, with its percentile rising from 29 to 39 and star rating from 1 star to 2 stars. ELA improved from 28.64% in 2024–2025 to 32.26% in 2025–2026, moving above the district’s 28.51%, while the state averaged 40.03%. Math rose modestly from 29.11% to 30.91%, but remains below the state’s 41.11%.
Within grades, 5th-grade math is a relative bright spot at 35.57%, far above the district’s 21.27%, though below the state’s 39.50%. The weakest reported score is 7th-grade math at 22.80%, 14.68 points below the state average. The district overall is ranked 291st of 351, in the 17th percentile with 1 star, while the school’s latest rank is 293rd of 478, in the 39th percentile with 2 stars. Student-teacher ratio is 14.1:1 for 2024–2025, and per-student spending was $15,645 for 2020–2021. Free/reduced lunch data is not available, so it should be treated as unknown. Overall, Joseph H Martin is improving and outperforms its district in all three tested subjects in 2025–2026 but still trails Massachusetts averages in ELA and Math.
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