Summary:
The 02719 zip code in Massachusetts is home to a single public middle school, Hastings Middle School, which serves grades 6-8 with a total enrollment of 428 students.
Hastings Middle School is ranked 207 out of 484 Massachusetts middle schools for the 2024-2025 school year and has a 3-star rating from SchoolDigger. While the school's academic performance is relatively stable, its proficiency rates on the MCAS Next Generation assessments are generally below the Fairhaven district and Massachusetts state averages in English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science. For the 2024-2025 school year, Hastings Middle School's proficiency rates are 39.1% in ELA, 40.25% in Math, and 38.41% in Science, compared to the Fairhaven district averages of 44.53%, 45.01%, and 47.62%, respectively, and the Massachusetts state averages of 41.53%, 40.74%, and 41.51%.
The school's student-teacher ratio of 14.1 is slightly higher than the state average, and its per-student spending of $14,129 for the 2020-2021 school year is also higher than the state average. However, without additional data on the school's demographic composition and strategies for addressing the observed proficiency gaps, it's difficult to determine the underlying factors contributing to the school's performance relative to the district and state.
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