Summary:
ZIP code 02743 contains exactly one middle school: Albert F Ford Middle School in Acushnet, Massachusetts, which serves grades 5–8 and enrolls 403 students. It belongs to the Acushnet district, which is ranked 121 of 351 districts in Massachusetts — the 66th percentile, 3 stars. The school's student-teacher ratio was 12.9 in 2024–2025, and per-student spending was $15,013 in 2020–2021. The free/reduced-lunch percentage is not reported, so it should not be read as 0%.
Academically, the picture is mixed. Mathematics is the clearest strength: all-grade proficiency is 42.45%, above the state's 41.11% though below the district's 46.53%, and grades 5 and 6 are especially strong at 48.11% and 48.94% — both well above state. By contrast, 7th- and 8th-grade math fall slightly below state. ELA is uneven: 5th and 7th grade are above state, but 6th-grade ELA is 24.73%, far below the state's 40.26% and 15.53 points behind it. Grade 8 is the weakest area overall, with Science at 24.00% (state 38.93%) and Civics at 24.24% (state 39.77%), each roughly 15 points below state yet close to district averages. There are no suppressed test-score values in this extract.
Looking at trends, the school's statewide rank has slipped from 152 of 493 (69th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 237 of 478 (50th percentile) in 2025–2026, though it has held 3 stars each year. All-grade Science fell from 44.44% to 32.04% year over year, a 12.40 percentage-point drop, while the district fell similarly and the state stayed nearly flat; ELA also declined, and math was comparatively stable. Because this ZIP has only one middle school, no cross-school comparison is possible, and all-grade district and state figures may cover broader grade spans than this school's grades 5–8, making grade-level results the most useful gauge of performance.
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