Summary:
ZIP code 02726 is home to a single middle school — Somerset Middle School — which serves grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 610 students as part of the Somerset district in Massachusetts. Because there is only one middle school in this area, there are no in-town comparisons to make; the useful benchmarks are the district and state averages, plus how the school has changed over time.
Academically, the school's clearest strengths are math, science, and civics. In 2025–2026, all-grade math proficiency was 43.49% (2.38 percentage points above the state) and science was 43.48% (2.50 points above state), while 8th grade civics reached 45.36%, or 5.59 points above the state. The standout single result is 8th grade math at 51.09% proficient — 9.42 points above the state. The school also has a favorable 13:1 student-teacher ratio (2024–2025) and per-student spending of $15,768, though that spending figure is from 2020–2021. In state rankings it placed 185th out of 478 schools in 2025–2026, the 61st percentile with 3 stars — still above the median, but below its 4-star, 70th-percentile showing in 2023–2024.
ELA is the relative weak spot: all-grade ELA proficiency was 37.61%, about 2.4 points below the state, with 7th grade at 34.85% (5.06 points below state) and 8th grade at 37.50% (4.20 points below state), even though 6th grade ELA was 41.10%, slightly above the state. Proficiency declined in every reported subject from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 — ELA by 2.69 points, math by 0.99, science by 4.62, and civics by 5.34. Free/reduced-price lunch data for 2024–2025 is not populated, so economic context cannot be assessed from this data.
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