Summary:
Zip code 02779 contains two public schools, both in the Berkley district in Massachusetts: Berkley Community School, an elementary school serving grades PK–4 with 459 students, and Berkley Middle School, a middle school serving grades 5–8 with 374 students. Together they enroll 833 students, and no high school or alternative school appears in this zip-level list. The Berkley district is ranked 128th of 351 districts in Massachusetts, at the 64th percentile with 3 stars.
Berkley Middle School is the stronger of the two, rated 4 stars in each of the last three years and sitting at the 73rd percentile in 2025–2026, above the district's 64th percentile. Berkley Community School is rated 3 stars and placed at the 56th percentile in 2025–2026, down from 70th the year before. Its all-grade ELA fell from 52.53% to 43.02% and math from 55.06% to 46.51%, though both remained above the state. Fourth grade is its bright spot: 54.12% proficient in math and 43.53% in ELA, both well above state, while 3rd grade math was about 3 points below state.
The middle school's standout results are in science and civics — 8th grade science at 65.06% vs 38.93% statewide, 8th grade civics at 56.63% vs 39.77%, and 8th grade ELA at 59.04%. Its 6th grade math (61.32%) is far above state, but 7th grade math (21.98% vs 37.48%) is the clearest red flag in the data. Operationally the schools are similar: student-teacher ratios of 14.1 and 13.8, with per-student spending of $14,021 and $12,426 respectively — figures from 2020–2021 that are old and should not be read as causal. Free/reduced-lunch percentages are not available for either school, so socioeconomic context cannot be assessed here.
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