Summary:
ZIP code 02740 contains exactly one middle school — Keith Middle School in New Bedford, MA — which serves grades 6–8 with 949 students, so there are no other local middle schools to compare it against. The school has a student-teacher ratio of 10.6 (2024–2025) and per-student spending of $16,577 (2020–2021); the free/reduced lunch percentage is not provided, so that socioeconomic context is unknown.
Against its own district, Keith Middle School holds up reasonably well: in 2025–2026 it topped New Bedford at the same grade level in 7 of 8 comparisons, with the largest edge in 8th grade math (20.63% vs. 14.33%). Its highest proficiency rates are 6th grade math at 26.00% and 6th grade ELA at 24.31%. The lone same-grade exception is 7th grade ELA, where it trails slightly at 17.69% vs. the district's 18.51%. Compared with Massachusetts, though, the school lags in every reported subject and grade — about 20 points behind statewide in all-grade ELA (20.02% vs. 40.03%) and math (20.73% vs. 41.11%), and more than 25 points behind in 8th grade science (14.58% vs. 38.93%) and 8th grade civics (12.59% vs. 39.77%), the lowest rate reported. Seventh grade math (16.26%) and ELA (17.69%) are the weakest grade-level results.
Year-over-year results are mixed. ELA fell from 23.77% to 20.02%, math was nearly flat (20.92% to 20.73%), while science rose slightly from 14.08% to 14.58% and 8th grade civics improved from 11.51% to 12.59%. Relative standing has slipped: the school's percentile dropped from 26 in 2023–2024 to 20 to 17 in 2025–2026, when it ranked 398 of 478 with 1 star. That is above the New Bedford district overall (327 of 351, 7th percentile, 0 stars), but still the bottom fifth of ranked Massachusetts schools.
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